Issue #20478: avoid special casing Counter in statistics

Passing Counter objects to the Counter constructor is
special cased, going through iter() firsts ensures they
are handled the same way as any other iterable.

(Committing on Steven's behalf as I don't believe his
SSH key is registered yet)
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Nick Coghlan 2014-02-08 19:44:16 +10:00
parent ec1c8097c1
commit bfd68bf4ac
3 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -268,9 +268,7 @@ def _coerce_types(T1, T2):
def _counts(data):
# Generate a table of sorted (value, frequency) pairs.
if data is None:
raise TypeError('None is not iterable')
table = collections.Counter(data).most_common()
table = collections.Counter(iter(data)).most_common()
if not table:
return table
# Extract the values with the highest frequency.