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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Feb 17 23:08:41 CET 2006

On 2/17/06, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

It's also makes it harder to read code. You may expect d[key] to raise an exception, but it won't because of a single line up several pages (or in another file entierly!)

Such are the joys of writing polymorphic code. I don't really see how you can avoid this kind of confusion -- I could have given you some other mapping object that does weird stuff.

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