[Python-Dev] Re: Candidate Itertools

[Brett C.]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> [David Eppstein]
> 
>>In another place I used the dictionary directly
>>but it amounted to the same thing.
> 
> 
> All respondents prefer having a dictionary (elements mapped to counts)
> instead of an itertool returning (cnt, elem) ...
> 
> Just to be clear before I do it, does everyone support having
> dict.countkeys() as a dictionary classmethod instead of the original
> proposal?
> 

I would rather not have it as a class method personally.  I believe Bob 
suggested creating a bucket type.  That sounds reasonable and could go 
into 'collections'

-Brett