On 12/5/2014 3:51 PM, John J Posner wrote:
The defaultdict documentation is confusing on this point. A *long* time ago, I filed Bug 9536 to improve the doc, but the fix hasn't bubbled to the surface yet.
Untrue. Your patch 'bubbled to the surface' and got provisionally rejected in 5 hours and 7 minutes. As it is, your patch is not acceptable. I will say more on the issue.
http://bugs.python.org/issue9536 -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list