[Python-ideas] defaultdict factory argument

[Zac Burns]

Ah, excellent.
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Steven Bethard
<steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Zac Burns <zac256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think defaultdict would be more useful if one could initialize it
>> with the option to have the key that is being looked up passed to
>> default_factory.
>
> Are you sure you can't get what you want by using __missing__?
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/defaultdict-objects.html
>
> Steve
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