#!/usr/bin/env python
     # encoding: utf-8
     #
     # Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann.  All rights reserved.
     #
     """Produce the elements of the counter.
     """
     #end_pymotw_header
     
     import collections
     
     c = collections.Counter('extremely')
     c['z'] = 0
     print c
     print list(c.elements())