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Author Mark.Shannon
Recipients Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard, Mark.Shannon, casevh, gbtami, mark.dickinson, niklasf, njs, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2020-05-31.11:02:30
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Why are calling a population count method "bit_count()"?
That seems likely to cause confusion with "bit_length()".

I might reasonable expect that 0b1000.bit_count() be 4, not 1. It does have 4 bits.
Whereas 0b1000.population_count() is clearly 1.

I have no objection to adding this method, just the choice of name.
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