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18 Dec
2017
18 Dec
'17
11:51 p.m.
It would be useful in many scenarios for values in collections.Counter to be allowed to be floating point. I know that Counter nominally emulates a multiset, which would suggest only integer values, but in a more general sense, it could be an accumulator of either floating point or integer data. As near as I can tell, Collection already does support float values in both Python 2.7 and 3.6, and the way the code is implemented, this change should be a no-op. All that is required is to update the documentation to say floating-point values are allowed, as it currently says only integers are allowed.