On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:02 PM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> I disagree.  My understanding of the purpose behind get() is to get a value
> or return the default specified in the get() call, not to create a new key
> (which the default __missing__ does).
>

Right. For comparison, defaultdict.get() doesn't add the key either.

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