Other than doing list comprehensions of reversed list comprehension, is there a pythonic way to sort Counter by value? If so, it is faster than this: >>> from collections import Counter &...

Nov 3, 2014 · sorting a counter in python by keys Asked 12 years, 1 month ago Modified 1 year, 7 months ago Viewed 69k times

Jun 5, 2021 · A Counter is really just a dict with some extra functionality. The underlying dictionary retains insertion order in recent versions of Python, as is called out in the docs:

How to add or increment single item of the Python Counter class Asked 10 years, 6 months ago Modified 4 years, 3 months ago Viewed 104k times

Both Counter and defaultdict(int) can work fine here, but there are few differences between them: Counter supports most of the operations you can do on a multiset.

Nov 24, 2021 · The max on collections.Counter is counter intuitive, I want to find the find the character that occurs the most in a string. >>> from collections import Counter >>> c = Counter ('

Sep 12, 2019 · {'apple': 2, 'red': 3, 'pear': 1} How can I do this simply in Python? If you are only interested in counting instances of a single element in a list, see How do I count the …

Dec 27, 2017 · As the comments on the question point out, the subtract method is applied to its object in place and returns None. To get the behaviour you want you can either use the - …

Jul 28, 2013 · The Counter docs give your sum(c.itervalues()) answer as the standard pattern for this in the "Common patterns for working with Counter objects" section, so I doubt there's …

Here is a solution to your problem based on a different approach from that proposed in the other answers. It uses message passing with multiprocessing.Queue objects (instead of shared …