On 28.02.2017 18:18, David Mertz wrote:
Yes, and easily written as above. What significant advantage would it
have to spell the above as:
x = alist.get(pos, default_val)
It's a couple characters shorter in the proposed version. I guess
I'll concede that needing the odd indexing at the end to get the
scalar is slightly ugly.
1. advantage: it looks like dict access -> allows duck typing (oh how
often I'd missed that)
2. advantage: no try except
3. advantage: no weird workaround with slices and additional item access
Thanks for bringing this up, Michel. First point would be most important
to me.
Sven
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