On Monday, April 7, 2014 9:08:23 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > That depends on whether calling Brand() unnecessarily is a problem. > Using setdefault() is handy when you're working with a simple list or > something, but if calling Brand() is costly, or (worse) if it has side > effects that you don't want, then you need to use a defaultdict. >
> I think this is a textbook example of why defaultdict exists, though, > so I'd be inclined to just use it, rather than going for setdefault :) Thanks for the clarification. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
