[Python-Dev] Proposal: defaultdict (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Feb 17 10:10:32 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

d = DefaultDict([])

can be written as simply d[key].append(value)

Feedback?

Probably a good idea, has been proposed multiple times on clpy. One good thing would be to be able to specify either a default value or a factory function.

While at it, other interesting dict subclasses could be:

Georg



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