Felix <fe...@meyerwolters.de> added the comment: Thanks for the link! Interesting read.
I have to disagree with the statement that this is something that happens very rarely. Just have a look at the mess on stackoverflow alone (these are only the top results I got after a minute of googling): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5125619/why-doesnt-list-have-safe-get-method-like-dictionary https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2492087/how-to-get-the-nth-element-of-a-python-list-or-a-default-if-not-available https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2574636/getting-a-default-value-on-index-out-of-range-in-python https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12186388/get-value-at-list-array-index-or-none-if-out-of-range-in-python https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17721748/default-value-for-out-of-bounds-list-index ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32979> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
