> On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:30 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal 
> <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> So maybe a solution is an accumulator special case of defaultdict — it uses a 
> list be default and appends by default.
>
> Almost like counter...

Which, of course, is pretty much what your proposal is.

Which makes me think — a new classmethod on the builtin dict is a
pretty heavy lift compared to a new type of dict in the collections
module.

-CHB
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