[Python-3000] A request to keep dict.setdefault() in 3.0 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jul 10 00:14:33 CEST 2007

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On Jul 9, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 7/9/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Phillip, I support any initiative to keep .setdefault() or similar functionality. When this thread came up before, I wasn't against defaultdict, I just didn't think it covered enough of the use cases of .setdefault() to warrant its removal. You describe some additional use cases.

However, .setdefault() is a horrible name because it's not clear from the name that a 'get' operation also happens. We had a long name discussion when it was introduced. Perhaps we can go back to the list suggested then and see if a better alternative was overlooked?

Don't look here because some big dummy contradicts himself seven
years later:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-August/007819.html

hmm-put()-ly y'rs,

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