A long time ago, I proposed that the dict variants (sorteddict, defaultdict, weakkeydict, etc.) be made more discoverable by having them specified as keyword arguments and I got the same feedback that the poster here is getting. Now, instead of moving these classes into dict, why not have a factory like
dict.factory(values=None, *, ordered=True, sorted=False, has_default=False, weak_keys=False, weak_values=False, …)
If prefers the keyword-argument as options to the keyword-argument as initializer magic, they can set:
dict = dict.factory
Best,
Neil
On Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 5:58:43 PM UTC-5, Chris Barker wrote:
>If we really want to make defaultdict feel more "builtin" (and I don't see
>any reason to do so), I'd suggest adding a factory function:
>
>dict.defaultdict(int)
Nice.
I agree -- what about:
dict.sorteddict() ??
make easy access to various built-in dict variations...
-CHB
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