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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 19 03:11:53 CET 2006

Bengt Richter wrote:

My guess is that realistically defaultfactory will be used to make clean code for filling a dict, and then turning the factory off if it's to be passed into unknown contexts.

This suggests that maybe the autodict behaviour shouldn't be part of the dict itself, but provided by a wrapper around the dict.

The you can fill the dict through the wrapper, and still have a normal dict underneath to use for other purposes.

Greg

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