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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Tue Feb 21 05:44:01 CET 2006


"Adam Olsen" <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

However, I'm beginning to think we shouldn't be comparing them. defaultdict is a powerful but heavyweight option, intended for complicated behavior.

Check out Guido's patch. It's not that "heavyweight", and its intended behavior is to make some operations more intuitive, if not a bit faster in some cases.

Whether or not getorset is introduced, I don't much care, as defaultdict will cover every use case I've been using setdefault for, as well as most of my use cases for get.



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