Antoon Pardon wrote: > Well at least I find them missing. > > For the moment I frequently come across the following cases. > > 1) Two files, each with key-value pairs for the same dictionary. > However it is an error if the second file contains a key that > was not in the first file. > > In treating the second file I miss a 'set' method. > dct.set(key, value) would be equivallent to dct[key] = value, > except that it would raise a KeyError if the key wasn't > already in the dictionary. > > > 2) One file with key-value pairs. However it is an error > if a key is duplicated in the file. > > In treating such files I miss a 'make' method. > dct.make(key, value) would be equivallent to dct[key] = value. > except that it would raise a KeyError if the key was > already in the dictionary. > > > What do other people think about this? > > -- > Antoon Pardon
If (1) gets accepted, I propose the name .change(key, val) It's simple, logical, and makes sense. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
