[Python-ideas] Add "default" kwarg to list.pop()

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:25:25 EDT 2018


31.10.18 01:44, Giampaolo Rodola' пише:
> Sorry in advance if this has been proposed in the past but I couldn't 
> find anything on python-ideas:
> 
>  >>> l = []
>  >>> l.pop(default=1)
> 1
> 
> FWIW my use case consists in reading entries from /proc/diskstats where 
> lines can have a variable number of fields depending on the kernel version:
> https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues/1354#issuecomment-434495870
> https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/d8b05151e65f9348aff9b58da977abd8cacb2127/psutil/_pslinux.py#L1068
> As such it would be convenient to set missing fields to 0 as "reads = 
> fields.pop(default=0)" instead of catching IndexError every time. Extra: 
> for consistency set.pop() should probably have the same.
> 
> Thoughts?

It is just

     l.pop() if l else default

or

     (l or [default]).pop()



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