On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:00 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <
[email protected]> wrote:

> If the "keyword arguments in __getitem__" feature is added, .get() is
> purely redundant.  (Of course this thread would then become "make
> 'default' a standard keyword argument for mutable collections.")
>

Is that something people want to do? Do people want to be able to write
`my_dict[key, default=0]` instead of `my_dict.get(key, 0)`? What
about `my_dict[key, default=None]` instead of `my_dict.get(key)`?
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