Issue 1696199: Add collections.Counter().
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+- Issue #1696199:  Add collections.Counter() for rapid and convenient
+  counting.
+
 - Issue #3860: GzipFile and BZ2File now support the context manager protocol.
 
 - Issue #4272: Add an optional argument to the GzipFile constructor to override