[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> Frank Niemeyer:
>> There's simply no
>> way to increment a non-existent value - not without performing some
>> obscure implict behind-the-scenes stuff.
>
> Like importing and using a defaultdict(int).
There's nothing implici
> However incrementing a non-existing key throws an exception.
Right. And that's exactly what I would expect, according to the
"principle of least surprise" Python tries to obey. There's simply no
way to increment a non-existent value - not without performing some
obscure implict behind-the-scenes
