[New-bugs-announce] [issue13887] defaultdict.get does not default to initial default but None

Jörn Hees report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jan 27 11:50:03 CET 2012


New submission from Jörn Hees <nrej9TyO at joernhees.de>:

I wanted to create a "function registrar" d using a defaultdict. The library that this registrar is passed to expects it to return functions taking 3 args. Now if the first call is d.get(x) it seems that in contrast to d[x] the default arg of get is returned (None) instead of the defaultdicts default. If i call d[x] first and then d.get(x) i get what i expected.

Example:

In [1]: def foo(a,b,c):
   ...:     return (a,b,c)
   ...: 

In [2]: from collections import defaultdict

In [3]: d = defaultdict(lambda:foo)

In [4]: d.get(1)

In [5]: d[1]
Out[5]: <function foo at 0x1015a2ed8>

In [6]: d.get(1)
Out[6]: <function foo at 0x1015a2ed8>

In [7]: d.get(2)(1,2,3)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/joern/<ipython console> in <module>()

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

In [8]: d[2](1,2,3)
Out[8]: (1, 2, 3)

In [9]: d.get(2)(1,2,3)
Out[9]: (1, 2, 3)


I'm not sure this is the desired behavior, but it wasn't quite what i expected from a dictionary with a default.
If it is the desired behavior the documentation of defaultdict should include an explanation what happens.

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components: Extension Modules, Library (Lib)
messages: 152083
nosy: joern
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: defaultdict.get does not default to initial default but None
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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