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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 19 02:50:44 CET 2006


Would people perhaps feel better if defaultdict wasn't a subclass of dict, but a distinct mapping type of its own? That would make it clearer that it's not meant to be a drop-in replacement for a dict in arbitrary contexts.

Greg



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