hashcollision schrieb: > The default factory that collections.defaultdict takes cannot use key. > Is there a way to have the default factory take the key into > consideration? For example > > d = collections.defaultdict(lambda title: BookShelf(title)) > > If not, I propose that it be added.
Note that you can easily write a type like that yourself, using dict.__missing__: class DefShelfDict(dict): def __missing__(self, key): shelf = self[key] = BookShelf(key) return shelf or some such. Georg -- Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right out. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com