25 Nov
2002
25 Nov
'02
11:16 a.m.
x = {}.sequpdate(...)
which suggests that you're really looking for a different constructor as a class method.
Yes! Will revise the patch accordingly and use Just's suggested name, fromseq(). Do you prefer the default value to be None or True? Earlier discussions on python-dev showed that True is more meaningful to some in the context of membership testing. OTOH, dict.setvalue and dict.get both use None. Raymond Hettinger