On 09/03/17 23:04, Spencer Brown wrote:
Might make more sense to be dict.default(int), that way it doesn't
have redundant dict names.
I thought that, too.
since you could do {1:2, 3:4}.default(int)
Could you?
Python 3.6.0 (default, Mar 9 2017, 00:43:06)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
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>>> type(dict())
<class 'dict'>
>>> type({})
<class 'dict'>
>>> type(dict)
<class 'type'>
The thing bound to the name 'dict' is not the same as the object
returned by _calling_ 'dict'.
E.
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