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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 01:35:33 CET 2006

Fuzzyman wrote:

I've had problems in code that needs to treat strings, lists and dictionaries differently (assigning values to a container where all three need different handling) and telling the difference but allowing duck typing is problematic.

You need to rethink your design so that you don't have to make that kind of distinction.

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