chenyong20...@gmail.com writes:
> My question is:
> (1) why root is always {}?
Because that's what you wrote. root.setdefault(ch, {}) returns {} and
you assign that to root. You probably want to do just
root.setdefault(ch, {}) instead of root = root.setdefault(ch, {}).
> (2) why tree is {'a': {'b': {'c': {}}}}?
That I don't know. Seems odd to me. From some debugging it seems that
after root = root.setdefault(ch,{}) tree['a'] and root are the same
object. So on the second round your code calls
tree['a'].setdefault('b',{}) and on the third round
tree['a'].setdefault('c',{}) which results in {'a': {'b': {'c': {}}}} as
the value of tree.
> (3) why root isn't the same as tree? shouldn't they be the same because tree
> is argument passed as root?
They are the same until you bind root to a new object with root =
root.setdefault(ch,{}).
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