On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Toshio Kuratomi
<a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Python-2.4 does have "setdefault" which is a misleading name (it
doesn't
> "set" a "default") for something that can be made to replace
defaultdict
> sometimes.
>
> Here's an example of making a replacement in python-fedora:
>
http://bzr.fedorahosted.org/bzr/python-fedora-python-fedora-devel?cmd=rev...
>
> Usually, if I was going to rewrite some code, I'd use a try: except: as
> it's clearer what's going on. Here's an example:
I just try: except: the import.
What's not clear to me is why defaultdict is needed at all in this
case. There is no call to default_factory and its default_factory
which lets you define a default value when a key is missing. I dont
see that going on in the code so it looks to me like defaultdict can
just be replaced with dict with no pain defaultdict=dict
I think you'll get exceptions at places like this when just replacing
defaultdict with dict::