[Python-ideas] Adding a `Counter.elements_length` method

[cool-RR]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Raymond Hettinger <
raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:28 PM, cool-RR wrote:
>
> > I suggest a `Counter.elements_length` method should be added, that would
> give the same answer as `sum(counter.itervalues())`. What do you think?
>
> Please open a feature request on the bug tracker and assign it to me.
> For the time being, I'm reluctant to further fatten the API, but this
> isn't an unreasonable request and there is precedent with
> Smalltalk's Bag API.  On the other hand, sum(c.values()) is
> somewhat trivial.
>
>
> Raymond
>

Done:

http://bugs.python.org/issue11733

<http://bugs.python.org/issue11733>I'm unable to assign it to you. (I guess
it takes some kind of credentials to do that?) I put you on the nosy list.


Ram.
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