[Python-Dev] collections module (original) (raw)

Mark Russell marktrussell at btopenworld.com
Sat Jan 10 14:44:48 EST 2004

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 19:26, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Instead of a method, it may be better to use a keyword argument in the constructor:

d = dict(default = lambda k:[])

Unfortunately that has a meaning already:

d = dict(default = lambda k:[]) d {'default': <function at 0x40212ed4>}

A shame, because it does look nicer (OTOH I use and like the keyword argument dict constructor).

I'd love to have the implicit default functionality though.

Mark Russell