EXOR or symmetric difference for the Counter class
Paddy
paddy3118 at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 12 16:20:19 EDT 2010
I find myself needing to calculate the difference between two Counters
or multisets or bags.
I want those items that are unique to each bag. I know how to
calculate it:
>>> b = Counter(a=1, b=2)
>>> c = Counter(a=3, b=1)
>>> diff = (b - c) + (c - b)
>>> (b - c)
Counter({'b': 1})
>>> (c - b)
Counter({'a': 2})
>>> diff
Counter({'a': 2, 'b': 1})
But thought why doesn't this operation appear already as a method of
the class?
- Paddy.
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