Oct. 28, 2009
6:42 a.m.
Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
Odd indeed. My first reaction was: it is not needed because lists support slicing, but when I tried to construct a list.get() using slicing the best I could come up with was the following hack
def lget(l, i, v): return (l[i:] or [v])[0] ... lget(range(10), 20, 200) 200 lget(range(10), 5, 50) 5
Yet for some reason I never missed this functionality ...
People tend to do length checks on lists to decide which items are and are not present. You can't do that with a dict. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------