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Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
[John Posner]
The fact is that a programmer using defaultdict does not need
to know anything about __missing__.
I disagree. It seems to help people understand the defaultdict which otherwise
seems more magical that it actually is. Also, it is a part of
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libcollections.tex?r1=38658r2=42573
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I agree that the patch is not acceptable as is. The public attribute
*defaultdict* should be explicitly documented as it is now, so that it is
indexed. On the other hand, users should not directly call .__missing__, and
it is not normal to document the
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John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net added the comment:
I think it would be confusing to create of subclass of defaultdict, defining a
__missing__ method in that subclass. The existence of the __missing__ method
would cancel the main functionality of the defaultdict object: invoking the
default
John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net added the comment:
On python-list, Wolfram Hinderer objected to the proposed patch's calling
__missing__ a special method.
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New submission from John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net:
The documentation for collections.defaultdict is confusing with respect to the
__missing__ method. The fact is that a programmer using defaultdict does not
need to know anything about __missing__.
The attached patch contains a rewrite of
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
I believe the description of __missing__ is there for those who want to
subclass defaultdict, but I'll let Raymond confirm.
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