On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Herman <sorsor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to pass in the key to the default_factory of defaultdict and I found > that defaultdict somehow can intercept my call to dict.__getitem__(self, > key), so my class's __getitem__ have to catch a TypeError instead instead > of KeyError. The following class is my code:
Save yourself a lot of trouble, and just override __missing__: class DefaultDictWithEnhancedFactory(collections.defaultdict): def __missing__(self, key): return self.default_factory(key) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list