[Python-Dev] defaultdict proposal round three (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon Feb 20 22:43:20 CET 2006


[Crutcher Dunnavant ]

There are many times that I want d[key] to give me a value even when it isn't defined, but that doesn't always mean I want to save that value in the dict.

How does that differ from the existing dict.get method?

Raymond



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