On Jul 19, 6:29 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Myobject will be instanciated each time, yes. > > > and so if the initialization is expensive you > > will probably see surprises. > > No "surprise" here, but it can indeed be suboptimal if instanciating > myobject is costly.
What about this way ? my_obj = my_dict.get(key) or my_dict.setdefault(key,myobject()) Ciao G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
