[Python-Dev] Counter proposal: multidict (was: Proposal: defaultdict) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Feb 17 21:03:06 CET 2006

On Friday 17 February 2006 14:51, Ian Bicking wrote:

This all seems to be a roundabout way to address one important use case of a dictionary with multiple values for each key,

I think there are use cases that do not involve multiple values per key. That is one place where this commonly comes up, but not the only one.

and in the process breaking an important quality of good Python code, that attribute and getitem access not have noticeable side effects.

I'm not sure that's quite as well-defined or agreed upon as you do.

-Fred

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