[Python-ideas] dict(default=int)

[Brice PARENT]

Le 08/03/17 à 23:09, Steven Piantadosi a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> I find importing defaultdict from collections to be clunky and it 
> seems like having a default should just be an optional keyword to 
> dict. Thus, something like,
>
> d = dict(default=int)
>
> would be the same as
>
> from collections import defaultdict
> d = defaultdict(int)
>
> Any thoughts?

I have never really used it, so I might say something stupid, but 
doesn't it prevent the use of "default" as a key in the generated dict?

Would those 2 dicts be equal ?
d1 = dict(default=5)
d2 = {'default': 5}

Brice