Very similar things could be said about dict.get too, no? It's easy to write your own function that does the same thing or to catch an exception.
On the other hand, it seems far more likely to miss keys in a dictionary than it is to repeatedly mistake indices in a list. > Which would be the use cases for this feature? > > I can't think of one. I've never missed this feature either. But I would also be interested in hearing a dream use case. - DLD -- David Lowry-Duda <[email protected]> <davidlowryduda.com> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EUCNY7QZSADRHIGH5KK6BECYGXVDQDRF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
