On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:20:37 -0700, genro wrote: > On Jul 19, 6:29 am, Bruno Desthuilliers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No "surprise" here, but it can indeed be suboptimal if instanciating >> myobject is costly. > > What about this way ? > > my_obj = my_dict.get(key) or my_dict.setdefault(key,myobject())
Reduces the unnecessary instantiation of `myobject` to "false" objects.
May be not good enough.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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