Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
See r87858.
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
Great, thanks.
We’ll see later if more cross-links are needed.
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
4. I cannot come up with another typical integer value that would be
useful, then again I've used , [] and set() numerous times.
You can get '' with str as default factory and [] with list.
I think we agree on reclassifying this as a doc
Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk added the comment:
Well, I was perfectly aware of __missing__ - it's just a three liner to do it
when using a lambda isn't *that* bad... I'm sure the documentation could be
improved to highlight __missing__ though. It's almost always the case that
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
[Łukasz Langa]
__missing__ didn't appear to be the one obvious way to anyone.
Two thoughts:
* There is part of the Zen that says that way may not be obvious unless your
Dutch. In this case, __missing__ was the API
