On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

 

Hm, this actually feels heavier to me. But then again I never liked or understood the need for Counter --

actually, me neither -- and partly because it's too lightweight -- that is, it's still a regular dict, and you pretty much have to know that to use it. That it, it provides a nice counting constructor, but after that, it's just a key:integer dict :-)