[Python-Dev] Should collections.Counter check for int?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu May 14 04:22:35 CEST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009, Hagen F?rstenau wrote:
>
> I'd prefer Counter to refuse non-numerical values right away as the
> present behaviour may hide bugs (e.g. a forgotten string->int
> conversion). Any opinions? (And what about negative values or floats?)

Please file a report on bugs.python.org so that there's a record of this
issue.
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