[Python-Dev] defaultdict proposal round three (original) (raw)
Crutcher Dunnavant crutcher at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 02:57:30 CET 2006
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in two ways:
- dict.get doesn't work for object dicts or in exec/eval contexts, and
- dict.get requires me to generate the default value even if I'm not going to use it, a process which may be expensive.
On 2/20/06, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
[Crutcher Dunnavant ] >> There are many times that I want d[key] to give me a value even when >> it isn't defined, but that doesn't always mean I want to save that >> value in the dict.
How does that differ from the existing dict.get method?
Raymond
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