Raymond Hettinger said unto the world upon 2005-03-18 20:24:
I would like to get everyone's thoughts on two new dictionary methods:
def appendlist(self, key, *values): try: self[key].extend(values) except KeyError: self[key] = list(values)
For appendlist, I would have expected
def appendlist(self, key, sequence): try: self[key].extend(sequence) except KeyError: self[key] = list(sequence)
The original proposal reads better at the point of call when values is a single item. In my experience this will be the typical usage:
d.appendlist(key, 'some value')
as opposed to your proposal which has to be written d.appendlist(key, ['some value'])
The original allows values to be a sequence using d.appendlist(key, *value_list)
Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
