multiset 0.2

An implementation of a multiset.

This package provides a multiset implementation for python.

Overview

A multiset is similar to the builtin set, but it allows an element to occur multiple times. It is an unordered collection of element which have to be hashable just like in a set. It supports the same methods and operations as set does, e.g. membership test, union, intersection, and (symmetric) difference:

>>> set1 = Multiset('aab')
>>> set2 = Multiset('abc')
>>> sorted(set1 | set2)
['a', 'a', 'b', 'c']

Multisets can be used in combination with sets:

>>> Multiset('aab') >= {'a', 'b'}
True

The implementation is based on a dict that maps the elements to their multiplicity in the multiset. Hence, some dictionary operations are supported.

In contrast to the collections.Counter from the standard library, it has proper support for set operations and only allows positive counts. Also, elements with a zero multiplicity are automatically removed from the multiset.

There is currently no immutable version of the multiset, because there is no immutable version of dict.

Installation

Installing multiset is simple with pip:

$ pip install multiset

Documentation

The documentation is available at Read the Docs.

API Documentation

If you are looking for information on a particular method of the Multiset class, have a look at the API Documentation. It is automatically generated from the docstrings.

License

Licensed under the MIT license.