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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Feb 17 20:26:40 CET 2006

On Friday 17 February 2006 14:09, Guido van Rossum wrote:

So here's a new proposal.

I like the version you came up with. It has sufficient functionality to make it easy to use, and enough flexibility to be useful in more specialized cases. I'm quite certain it would handle all the cases I've actually dealt with where I wanted a variation of a mapping with default values.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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