[Python-Dev] Proposal: defaultdict (original) (raw)
Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Fri Feb 17 21:27:36 CET 2006
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
On 2/17/06, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
Ahem, I'm still looking for ways to 'overtake' the dict to implement weird and fancy things. Can onmissing be overridden in subclasses (writing the subclass in C would not be a problem)? Why ahem? The answer is yes.
Ok, so that allows to pass the key, for example, to the default_factory - allowing the case insensitive lookup in namespaces.
Thomas
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