New submission from Paddy McCarthy <paddy3...@gmail.com>: Hi, I was answering some question and used dict.setdefault as part of the solution and posted the help() on it as part of my answer.
The help was this: In [15]: help(mapper.setdefault) Help on built-in function setdefault: setdefault(...) method of builtins.dict instance D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D This seems the wrong way around. Is it not better expressed as D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> set D[k]=d if k not in D and then D.get(k,d) ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 315015 nosy: Paddy McCarthy, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Better help text for dict.setdefault type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33235> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com