I noticed that dataclasses.asdict seems to incorrectly reconstruct collections.Counter objects with the counter values as tuple keys.

eg: 

In [1]: from collections import Counter
In [2]: from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict
In [3]: c = Counter()
In [4]: c['stuff'] += 1
In [5]: @dataclass
   ...: class Bob:
   ...:     c: Counter
   ...:
In [6]: b = Bob(c)
In [7]: c
Out[7]: Counter({'stuff': 1})
In [9]: b.c
Out[9]: Counter({'stuff': 1})
In [10]: asdict(b)
Out[10]: {'c': Counter({('stuff', 1): 1})}
In [11]: asdict(b)['c']
Out[11]: Counter({('stuff', 1): 1})

The Counter gets reconstructed with its item tuples as keys.

This problem seems to have similar aspects to https://bugs.python.org/issue35540

The asdict API was a mistake, because it's not possible for it to know how to create all possible sub-objects. I can't decide what to do about it. I might just "abandon it in place", by documenting its problems and suggesting it not be used.

I should research what attrs does.