[Python-talk] Changing defaultdict

[Ray Cote]

At 5:03 PM -0400 8/30/08, Ric Werme wrote:
>One of the items we talked about on Thursday was collections.defaultdict.
>...
>
>So, dict calls __missing__ on a failed reference and that it's trivial to
>create a variant that passes the key to the factory.

Hi Ric:
Thanks for the follow-up.
Creating a custom variant where the key could be used to determine 
the return indeed looks pretty straight forward. Definitely keeping 
this in mind for some future projects (and thanks Kent for 
introducing collections.defaultdict).
--Ray

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