> Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> d = DefaultDict([]) >> >> can be written as simply >> >> d[key].append(value) > >> Feedback? >
Ok, setdefault is a horrible name. Would it make sense to come up with a better name? Georg Brandl wrote: > Probably a good idea, has been proposed multiple times on clpy. > One good thing would be to be able to specify either a default value > or a factory function. > > While at it, other interesting dict subclasses could be: > * sorteddict, practically reinvented by every larger project You mean ordereddict, not sorteddict, I hope. > * keytransformdict, such as d = keytransformdict(str.lower). Not sure what you mean by that. What *I* would like is probably more ambitious: I want a dict that allows case-insensitive lookup of string keys, plus ideally I want to use it as class or instance dictionary. Use case: COM wrappers. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
