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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 16:28:55 CET 2006


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Using Guido's original example:

d.get(key, [], True).append(value) hmm. are you sure you didn't just reinvent setdefault ?

I'm reasonably sure I copied it on purpose, only with a name that isn't 100% misleading as to what it does ;)

I think collections.defaultdict is a better approach, though.

Cheers, Nick.

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