Pre-PEP: Dictionary accumulator methods

[Greg Ewing]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> py> def defaultdict(*args, **kwargs):
> ...     defaultfactory, args = args[0], args[1:]

which can be written more succinctly as

   def defaultdict(defaultfactory, *args, **kwargs):
     ...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg