On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:08:20 PM UTC-4, pepper_bg wrote: > > You can do > > s.get(6,None) > > Still have to anticipate what my keys are and write different code > accordingly. Which is fine in most cases I guess. Or may be I am > trying to be too generic here. Thanks for your input... > > If you're not sure whether a key might be a string or integer, you can use > the s.get() method in all cases.
Still, it'd make sense for s['a'] to have the same semantics as s.a.