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Counter: fix recipe for "n least common elements". Found by Mikhail Golubev on docs@.
authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:36:39 +0000 (12:36 +0200)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:36:39 +0000 (12:36 +0200)
Doc/library/collections.rst

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@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ Common patterns for working with :class:`Counter` objects::
     dict(c)                         # convert to a regular dictionary
     c.items()                       # convert to a list of (elem, cnt) pairs
     Counter(dict(list_of_pairs))    # convert from a list of (elem, cnt) pairs
-    c.most_common()[:-n:-1]         # n least common elements
+    c.most_common()[:-n-1:-1]       # n least common elements
     +c                              # remove zero and negative counts
 
 Several mathematical operations are provided for combining :class:`Counter`