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Minus operator versus unary minus

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Minus operator versus unary minus
Date 2015-05-30 09:56 +0200
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Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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The following modification of the collections.Counter implementation

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fe4efc0032b5

was just checked in with the line

result[elem] = 0 - count

Does this have an advantage over the obvious

result[elem] = -count

?

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Minus operator versus unary minus Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-30 09:56 +0200
  Re: Minus operator versus unary minus Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-30 18:19 +1000
    Re: Minus operator versus unary minus Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-30 10:36 +0200

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