On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > I'm not sure that "setdefault" should take **kw args for this because > of its existing argument structure (key + optional value). > > A new method like "updatedefault" may be better, IMHO. It would act > like "update" except that it wouldn't overwrite existing values.
Wouldn't x.updatedefault(y) be pretty much y.update(x) ? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
