On 11/04/2011 23:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
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) ?
I suppose it would, except that it wouldn't be in-place as such, and it
wouldn't be as efficient if you're wanting to default only a few
entries in a larger dict.
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