[docs] [issue32770] collections.counter examples are misleading
Anthony Flury
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Feb 5 08:11:56 EST 2018
Anthony Flury <anthony.flury at btinternet.com> added the comment:
Raymond,
I completely understand your comment but I do disagree.
My view would be that the documentation of the stdlib should document the entry level use cases.
The first example given uses nothing special from the Counter class - you could implement exactly the same with a defaultdict(int) - the only difference would be that output will read defaultdict(<type 'int'>,{'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1}).
I think the examples in the documentation should at least demonstrate something important on the class being documented - and the first example doesn't.
I am very tempted to re-open - but I wont - no benefit in bouncing the status as we discuss this.
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