Can you make Counter not write-out “Counter”?

Question

So when I print the Counter (from collections import Counter) to a file I always get this the literal Counter ({\'Foo\': 12})

Is there anyw

Answer 1

What about explicitly formatting it into the form that you want?

>>> import collections
>>> data = [1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 10, 0]
>>> c = collections.Counter(data)
>>> '{' + ','.join("'{}':{}".format(k, v) for k, v in c.iteritems()) + '}'
"{'0':1,'1':4,'2':2,'3':2,'10':1}"