Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Like "autodict" could mean anything.
Everything is meaningless until you know something about it. If you'd never seen Python before, would you know what 'dict' meant? If I were seeing "defaultdict" for the first time, I would need to look up the docs before I was confident I knew exactly what it did -- as I've mentioned before, my initial guess would have been wrong. The same procedure would lead me to an understanding of 'autodict' just as quickly. Maybe 'autodict' isn't the best term either -- I'm open to suggestions. But my instincts still tell me that 'defaultdict' is the best term for something *else* that we might want to add one day as well, so I'm just trying to make sure we don't squander it lightly. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
