Hi, I've written a patch that adds a new C-API call for dict.setdefault(). The reason is that there is currently no way to test for a key and insert a fallback value for it without either evaluating the hash function twice or calling through the Python function. Both may involve considerable overhead and the double hash may have side-effects.
http://bugs.python.org/issue17327 It does not include an explicit test because it does not add any code over the normal dict.setdefault() implementation, which is already tested at the Python level. If you prefer having a dummy test that checks that the function is there, I don't mind adding one. Please comment and/or apply the patch. Thanks, Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
