[Python-Dev] PEP 450 adding statistics module

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Aug 16, 2013 11:05 AM, "Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:
>
> I'll provide two functions: mode, which returns the single value with the
highest frequency, or raises; and a second function, which collates the
data into a sorted (value, frequency) list. Bike-shedding on the name of
this second function is welcomed :-)

I'd call it counts() and prefer an OrderedDict for easy lookup. By that
point you're very close to Counter though (which it currently uses
internally).

Oscar
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