Herman wrote:
I want to pass in the key to the default_factory of defaultdict and I found that defaultdict somehow can intercept my call to dict.__getitem__(self, key),
What's happening here is that defaultdict doesn't actually override __getitem__ at all. Instead, it overrides __missing__, which gets called by the standard dict's __getitem__ for a missing key. As Steven said, you don't need a defaultdict here at all, just a dict subclass that defines __missing__ the way you want. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
