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

Well this isn't very elegant, but you can simply cast it as a string and cut off the first 8 and last 1 letters:

x = Counter({'Foo': 12})
print str(x)[8:-1]