在 2016年10月19日星期三 UTC+8上午11:46:28,MRAB写道: > On 2016-10-19 03:15, chenyong20...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks Peter and Anssi for your kind help. Now I'm ok with the first > > question. But the second question still confused me. Why "it seems that > > after root = root.setdefault(ch,{}) tree['a'] and root are the same > > object" and follows tree['a']['b']? Thanks. > > > You call the .setdefault method with a key and a default value. > > The .setdefault method does this: if the key is in the dict, it returns > the associated value, else it puts the key and the default into the dict > and then returns the default.
thanks for the reply. I understand this. I'm now confused on why tree got its magic result. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list