Barry Warsaw wrote:
> However, .setdefault() is a horrible name because it's not clear from
> the name that a 'get' operation also happens.
The return value of .setdefault() could be changed to None, then the name
would be correct.
And then a helper function could fill the current use case of returning the
added abject at the same time.
>>> d = {}
>>> def setget(setter, getter, vars):
... setter(*vars)
... return getter(*vars)
...
>>> setget(d.setdefault, d.get, ('foo', [])).append(7)
>>> d
{'foo': [7]}
>>> setget(d.setdefault, d.get, ('foo', [])).append(8)
>>> d
{'foo': [7, 8]}
Now if this could be made to be more general so it worked with with other
objects it might really be useful. ;-)
Cheers,
Ron
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