That's already valid dict syntax.
>>> dict(default=int)
{'default': <type 'int'>}
Generally that in itself makes this a no go.
Mahmoud
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Steven Piantadosi <spiant...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I find importing defaultdict from collections to be clunky and it seems
> like having a default should just be an optional keyword to dict. Thus,
> something like,
>
> d = dict(default=int)
>
> would be the same as
>
> from collections import defaultdict
> d = defaultdict(int)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ++Steve
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