I wasn't familiar with it prior to this thread, as previously I'd had the good fortune to use normalized data. I guess more pristine data environments spoiled me into writing less robust code.
So although I asked what turned out to be the wrong question, I seem to be getting a consensus answer I'm sure I'll have a chance to put to the test over and over here. On 8/16/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know about dict.get()? It will return None or a default value of > your choice if a key is missing. Might be helpful... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
