[Python-Dev] dict.addlist() (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Tue Jan 20 09:17:43 EST 2004


Here is anidea to kick around:

Evolve and eventually replace dict.setdefault with a more specialized method that is clearer, cleaner, easier to use, and faster.

   d.addlist(k, v)   would work like   d.setdefault(k, []).append(v)
   

Raymond Hettinger

d = dict() for elem in 'apple orange ant otter banana asp onyx boa'.split(): ... k = elem[0] ... d.addlist(k, elem) ... d {'a': ['apple', 'ant', 'asp'], 'b': ['banana', 'boa'], 'o': ['orange', 'otter', 'onyx']}

bookindex = dict() for pageno, page in enumerate(pages): for word in page: bookindex.addlist(word, pageno)



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