[Python-Dev] Function arguments

[Thomas Heller]

From: "Skip Montanaro" <skip@pobox.com>
> 
> It's perhaps worth pointing out that dicts already have a zero-arg popitem
> method.  I don't think I would use Thomas's proposed popitem so frequently
> that the fairly obvious
> 
>     v = d.get(k, default)
>     try: del d[k]
>     except KeyError: pass
> 
> would be all that much trouble to type.  Those are the semantics you're
> proposing, right?
Exactly.

Thomas