Re: Append a new value to dict

[paul]

Pat schrieb:

I know it's not "fair" to compare language features, but it seems to me (a Python newbie) that appending a new key/value to a dict in Python is awfully cumbersome.

In Python, this is the best code I could come up with for adding a new key, value to a dict

mytable.setdefault( k, [] ).append( v )

In Perl, the code looks like this:

$h{ $key } = $value ;

Whats wrong with:

mytable[key] = value

cheers
 Paul

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