Sorry about that, the Counter class is there.

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Fri Jul 10 17:07:28 EDT 2009


Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> [Scott David Daniels]
>>> def most_frequent(arr, N): ...
>> In Py2.4 and later, see heapq.nlargest().
> I should have remembered this one
> 
>> In Py3.1, see collections.Counter(data).most_common(n)
> This one is from Py3.2, I think.

Oops -- egg all over my face.  I thought I was checking with 3.1, and it
was 2.6.2.  I _did_ make an explicit check, just poorly.

Again, apologies.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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