R.H.: > The setdefault() method would continue to exist but > would likely not make it into Py3.0.
I agee to remove the setdefault. I like the new count method, but I don't like the appendlist method, because I think it's too much specilized. I too use sets a lot; recently I've suggested to add a couple of set methods to dicts (working on the keys): intersection() and difference(). Bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
