Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > This would allow things like: > > key = '',join( list(word.lower().strip()).sort() ) > > key = ''.join(list(sorted(word.lower().strip()))
No need to make yet another list here (also, I think each of you omitted a needed closed-paren!-) -- you could just use: key = ''.join(sorted(word.lower().strip())) > > - Another feature I assumed but it failed, is a nice default for > > dictionaries, and more += like operations; > > For example: to acculumate words in a dictionary - > > dict[key] += [word] > > > > Instead of: > > mark[key] = mark.get(key,[]) + [word] > > mark.setdefault(key, []).append(word) setdefault was a worthy experiment, but it works rather clumsily in real life -- most of us are back to splitting such "multidict assignments" into two statements, such as: if key in mark: mark[key].append(word) else: mark[key] = [word] Fortunately, 2.5's collections.defaultdict makes it pretty again (and VASTLY more general than the one and only "nice default" the OP is wishing for;-). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list