Feb. 27, 2014
9:32 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
@@ -43,6 +43,34 @@
* statistics.mean(data) - no way to handle an empty iterator
+Had this facility existed early in Python's history, there would have been +no need to create dict.get() and related methods; the one obvious way to +handle an absent key would be to respond to the exception. One method is +written which signal the absence in one way, and one consistent technique
Doh! Typical... I notice the typo only after hitting send. This should be "which signals". The linked-to draft file has been updated. ChrisA