Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bengt Richter wrote: > > > My guess is that realistically default_factory will be used > > to make clean code for filling a dict, and then turning the factory > > off if it's to be passed into unknown contexts. > > This suggests that maybe the autodict behaviour shouldn't > be part of the dict itself, but provided by a wrapper > around the dict. > > The you can fill the dict through the wrapper, and still > have a normal dict underneath to use for other purposes.
I prefer this to changing dictionaries directly. The actual wrapper could sit in the collections module, ready for subclassing/replacement of the on_missing method. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
