I really don't like that defaultdict (or a dict extension) means that
x[not_found] will have noticeable side effects. This all seems to be a
roundabout way to address one important use case of a dictionary with
multiple values for each key, and in the process breaking an important
quality of
On 2/17/06, Ian Bicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't like that defaultdict (or a dict extension) means that
x[not_found] will have noticeable side effects. This all seems to be a
roundabout way to address one important use case of a dictionary with
multiple values for each key, and
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:51, Ian Bicking wrote:
This all seems to be a
roundabout way to address one important use case of a dictionary with
multiple values for each key,
I think there are use cases that do not involve multiple values per key. That
is one place where this commonly
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:03:06PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:51, Ian Bicking wrote:
and in the process breaking an important
quality of good Python code, that attribute and getitem access not have
noticeable side effects.
I'm not sure that's quite
