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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:91515

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

?