On Aug 16, 5:35 pm, beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I'd like to do the following in more succint code: > > if k in b: > a=b[k] > else: > a={} > b[k]=a > > a['A']=1 > > In perl it is just one line: $a=$b->{"A"} ||={}. > > Thanks, > Geoffrey
It looks like defaultdict is the solution for this kind of thing. Thanks all for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list