bvidinli schrieb:
i use dictionaries to hold some config data, such as:
conf={'key1':'value1','key2':'value2'} and so on...
when i try to process conf, i have to code every time like: if conf.has_key('key1'): if conf['key1']<>'': other commands....
this is very annoying. in php, i was able to code only like: if conf['key1']=='someth'
in python, this fails, because, if key1 does not exists, it raises an exception.
MY question: is there a way to directly get value of an array/tuple/dict item by key, as in php above, even if key may not exist, i should not check if key exist, i should only use it, if it does not exist, it may return only empty, just as in php....
i hope you understand my question...
if conf.get('key1','') == 'someth': ...