Alec Nikolas Reiter added the comment: @SilentGhost I was playing with a voting algorithm (Instant Runoff, rather than traditional majority). Ultimately, I ended up using Counter in place of a defaultdict, but that's how I ended up noticing it.
Not so much ensuring the content so much as setting an initial default state to mutate. @rhettinger I had considered a comprehension and passing it into a defaultdict (or Counter) to get that nice missing key handling. Implicitly assigning the factory is a pretty good compromise, like I said fromkeys accepting the factory would be a nice convenience rather than correcting a major oversight. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23372> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
