get method

[MRAB]

James Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:22 AM, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> (snip)
> 
>> The "crawl through the shrubbery looking for evidence" approach
>> stumbles on the actual code:
> 
> Yes I found his implementation soon after :)
> Not bad actually... I wonder why bag() isn't
> shipped with the std lib - perhaps in teh set
> module ?
> 
Occasionally someone posts here wanting to count items and solutions 
involving dict or defaultdict are suggested, and I think that a 'bag' 
class would be useful. The 'set' class was introduced first in a module, 
but it soon became a builtin. My posting was intended a possible 
reference implementation.