Vito De Tullio wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>
>>> How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
>> I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?
>
> but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's used to set a default
> value when you try to retrieve an element from the dict, not when you try
> to set a new one ...
But it also sets the value if the key is not found:
"""
setdefault(...)
D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D
"""
>>> d = {}
>>> d.setdefault(1, 2)
2
>>> d
{1: 2}
>>> d.setdefault(1, 3)
2
>>> d
{1: 2}
It has been suggested that get_or_set() would have been a better name for
that functionality...
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