Then you will likely be happy with Guido's current version of the patch. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crutcher Dunnavant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Python Dev" <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] defaultdict proposal round three
in two ways: 1) dict.get doesn't work for object dicts or in exec/eval contexts, and 2) dict.get requires me to generate the default value even if I'm not going to use it, a process which may be expensive. On 2/20/06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Crutcher Dunnavant ] > >> There are many times that I want d[key] to give me a value even when > >> it isn't defined, but that doesn't always mean I want to _save_ that > >> value in the dict. > > How does that differ from the existing dict.get method? > > > Raymond > -- Crutcher Dunnavant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> littlelanguages.com monket.samedi-studios.com _______________________________________________ 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
