> Are we talking about the same setdefault()? > > > D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D > > There is no per-instance default value just on per call:
Oh. You're right. I was somehow under the impression that setdefault is per-instance, so that I can avoid d.get(key, default) and write d[key] instead, for all keys, and get no more KeyErrors. But then you are right of course. Regards, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
