[Python-ideas] Counter comparison

[Antony Lee]

As Counter objects effectively behave like multi-sets, it seems reasonable
to overload <, <=, >, >= as for set objects to check whether a Counter is a
sub/super-set of another Counter:

c < d  <===>  all(c[k] < d[k] for k in c)

Thoughts?

Antony
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