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
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 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
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 g
