On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Elisha Rosensweig <bensha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Till now, when I receive a dictionary that I'm not sure contains a certain
> key, I would use the following template to access a given key:
>
> if 'someKey' in dict.keys():
> someData = dict['someKey']
>
> is there a faster way to do this? accessing a key that does not exist will
> through an exception, which is just as tiresome...
sure is:
In [97]: mydict = {'knights':'say ni', 'death':'pointy teeth'}
In [98]: mydict.get('spam')
In [99]: mydict.get('knights')
Out[99]: 'say ni'
In [100]: if mydict.get(3):
.....: print 'Hi'
.....:
.....:
In [101]: if mydict.get('death'):
.....: print mydict['death']
.....:
.....:
pointy teeth
HTH,
Wayne
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