Why dict.setdefault() has value as optional?

[Marco Sulla]

Just out of curiosity: why dict.setdefault() has the default parameter
that.... well, has a default value (None)? I used setdefault in the past,
but I always specified a value. What's the use case of setting None by
default?
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