Mike Rovner wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
>> If the compiler can do some type inference, it can optimize out those
>> multiple calls pretty straightforwardly.
>
> It can be tipped like that:
>
> di = dict(int)
> di.setdefault(0)
> di[key] += 1
Interesting, but why do you need to give the int type to the constructor?
> dl = dict(list)
> dl.setdefault([])
> dl.append("word")
> dl.extend(mylist)
I don't quite understand that. Which dict item are you extending? Don't
you need something like
dl[key].append("word")
?
Anyway, using `setdefault' as the method name is quite confusing,
although yours is IMHO a much better behavior given the name ;)
So what about `setdefaultvalue'?
Reinhold
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