The rap against "while True:" loops

[Aahz]

In article <7xmy3peq3s.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> Standard Python idiom:
>> 
>> try:
>>     d[key] += value
>> except KeyError:
>>     d[key] = value
>> 
>> Maybe you need to re-think "appropriate".
>
>But more recent style prefers:
>
>   d = collections.defaultdict(int)
>   ...
>   d[key] += value

That was a trivial example; non-trivial examples not addressed by
defaultdict are left as an exercise for the reader.
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