New submission from Paddy McCarthy <[email protected]>:
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)
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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
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