Adam Olsen wrote: > You could pass a float in as well. But if the function is documented > as taking a dict, and the programmer expects a dict.. that now has to > be changed to "dict without a default". Or they have to code > defensively since d[key] may or may not raise KeyError, so they must > avoid depending on it either way.
Can you give an example of real, existing code that will break if a such a dict is passed? Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
