Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > And what real difference is that going to gain versus the existing > .get() method where the default is a sentinel?
It's just less ugly. I don't know a way to get a unique sentinel other than "sentinel = object()" or something like that, creating more clutter. Maybe in a specific application, I can figure out a value that won't occur in the dictionary and use that, but it's cleaner to use a generic construction. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
