"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
> > BTW: remember that setdefault() is written "setdefault()" but it's read
> > "getorset()".
>
> I can only second that. The misleading name has - well, mislead me :)
Hmm,
x[a][b][c][d] = e # x is a "magic" dict
becomes
x.setdefault(a,{}).setdefault(b,{}).setdefault(c,{})[d] = e
if I understand correctly. Ugh.