In this snippet:
d = {'x': 1}
value = d.get('x', bigscaryfunction())the bigscaryfunction is always called, even though 'x' is a valid key. Is there a "short-circuit" version of get that doesn't evaluate the second argument if the first is a valid key? For now I'll code around it, but this behavior surprised me a bit... Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
