June 29, 2018
12:37 a.m.
On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:30 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
So maybe a solution is an accumulator special case of defaultdict — it uses a list be default and appends by default.
Almost like counter...
Which, of course, is pretty much what your proposal is. Which makes me think — a new classmethod on the builtin dict is a pretty heavy lift compared to a new type of dict in the collections module. -CHB