Re: [Python-ideas] getitem(obj, key, default) [was: Default return values to int and float]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger@gmail.com wrote:

Does this make any semantic sense to users (i.e. they specifically want to the i-th item of sequence but don't even know long the sequence is)?

I still occasionally want to do it with sys.argv to implement optional positional arguments before I remind myself to quit messing around reinventing the wheel and just import argparse. But yeah, being a better idea than the conversion function proposals is a far cry from being a good idea :)

Cheers, Nick.