[Python-Dev] itertools addition: getitem()

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/8/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> > How important is it to have the default in this API? __getitem__()
> > doesn't have a default; instead, there's a separate API get() that
> > provides a default (and I find defaulting to None more manageable than
> > the "_default = object()" pattern).
>
> getattr() has a default too, while __getattr__ hasn't...

Fair enough.

But I still want to hear of a practical use case for the default here.

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