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		mgraczyk on Nov 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Counting Things in Python: A History Worth noting that Counter itself uses what the article calls get Method, but with a common performance optimization (caching a bound method). `def _count_elements(mapping, iterable): mapping_get = mapping.get for elem in iterable: mapping[elem] = mapping_get(elem, 0) + 1`

raymondh on Nov 10, 2015 [–]

Also worth noting that those lines are immediately followed by:

    try:                                    # Load C helper function if available        
        from _collections import _count_elements
    except ImportError:
        pass

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