[Python-Dev] defaultdict proposal round three (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 21 00:19:36 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I see two alternatives.

Have you considered the third alternative that's been mentioned -- a wrapper?

The issue of contains etc. could be sidestepped by not giving the wrapper a contains method at all. If you want to do an 'in' test you do it on the underlying dict, and then the semantics are clear.

Greg



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