default behavior

[John Posner]

On 8/2/2010 11:00 PM, John Posner wrote:
> On 7/31/2010 1:31 PM, John Posner wrote:
>>
>> Caveat -- there's another description of defaultdict here:
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.defaultdict
>>
>> ... and it's bogus. This other description claims that __missing__ is a
>> method of defaultdict, not of dict.
>
> Following is a possible replacement for the bogus description. Comments
> welcome. I intend to submit a Python doc bug, and I'd like to have a
> clean alternative to propose.


After some off-list discussion with Ethan Furman (many thanks!), the 
Python Doc bug is submitted: #9536 at bugs.python.org.

-John