Re: Thread-safe way to add a key to a dict only if it isn't already there?

[Ethan Furman]

On 07/06/2018 10:51 AM, INADA Naoki wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 2:49 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>> I have a dict with string keys:
>>
>> --> D = {'a': None, 'b': None}

>> How do I do a thread-safe insertion if, and only if, the key isn't
>> already there?
>

D.setdefault('c', None)

This is how Enum avoids race conditions when setting up the re.RegexType 
enumeration.

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