vishap.backports package

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vishap.backports.collections module

class vishap.backports.collections.Counter(iterable=None, **kwds)

Bases: dict

Dict subclass for counting hashable objects. Sometimes called a bag or multiset. Elements are stored as dictionary keys and their counts are stored as dictionary values.

>>> Counter('zyzygy')
Counter({'y': 3, 'z': 2, 'g': 1})

copy()

Like dict.copy() but returns a Counter instance instead of a dict.

elements()

Iterator over elements repeating each as many times as its count.

>>> c = Counter('ABCABC')
>>> sorted(c.elements())
['A', 'A', 'B', 'B', 'C', 'C']

If an element’s count has been set to zero or is a negative number, elements() will ignore it.

classmethod fromkeys(iterable, v=None)

most_common(n=None)

List the n most common elements and their counts from the most common to the least. If n is None, then list all element counts.

>>> Counter('abracadabra').most_common(3)
[('a', 5), ('r', 2), ('b', 2)]

update(iterable=None, **kwds)

Like dict.update() but add counts instead of replacing them.

Source can be an iterable, a dictionary, or another Counter instance.

>>> c = Counter('which')
>>> c.update('witch')           # add elements from another iterable
>>> d = Counter('watch')
>>> c.update(d)                 # add elements from another counter
>>> c['h']                      # four 'h' in which, witch, and watch
4

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