Abram Clark added the comment:
There really are valid use cases for this. Would you please refer me to this
previous discussion? In a particular small to medium sized Python repository of
~10k lines, list get is used 23 times, whereas other list builtin methods are
used far less (for example
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
This idea has been discussed before and was rejected. While get() makes sense
and has valid use cases for dictionaries which use key based lookups, there
isn't a parallel for lists. In general, we do just fine without list.get().
Also, it seems that o
New submission from Abram Clark :
Just like with dictionaries, it is convenient to index lists without catching
exceptions. Adding an import for this most basic functionality is slightly
tedious, and I can't imagine it would break anything to add a list.get method.
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