[Python-Dev] defaultdict and on_missing()

[Aahz]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Operations with two or more arguments are often better expressed as
> function calls -- for example, map() and filter() don't make much
> sense as methods on callables or sequences.

OTOH, my personal style is to always use re.compile() because I can
never remember the order of arguments for re.match()/re.search().
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