[C++-sig] Re: static methods

[David Abrahams]

Nikolay Mladenov <nickm at sitius.com> writes:

> David,
>
> It seems to me (I have not tested) that with your fix the following code
> will execute normaly:
> int main()
> {
>     dict d;
>     assert( d[0] == object() );
>     return 0;
> }

No, that will throw.

  int main()
  {
      dict d;
      assert(d.get(0) == object() );
      return 0;
  }

> But in python:
>>>> d=dict()
>>>> d[0]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File("?stdin>", line1, in?
> KeyError: 0
>>>>


>>> dict().get(0) is None
1


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