[Python-ideas] Where should grouping() live (was: grouping / dict of lists)

[Michael Selik]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 3:11 AM Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Replying to the question in subject, I think it would be better in
> collections as a class.
> Having it just as a function doesn't  buy much, because one can do the
> same with three lines and a defaultdict.
>

Four lines. You'll need to convert from defaultdict back to a basic dict to
avoid mistaken inserts. For some use cases.


However, if this is a class it can support adding new elements, merge the
> groupeddicts, etc.
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