[Tutor] Question about dictionary method get()

[Dick Moores]

Francis Moore wrote at 06:47 6/28/2004:
>Checking for 'None' is as follows:
>
>def func():
>         d = {}
>         d['a'] = 1
>         d['b'] = 2
>         d['c'] = 3
>
>         if d.get('d') == None:
>                 print 'Key of "d" not found'
>
>if __name__ == '__main__':
>         func()
>
>This will print 'Key of "d" not found'
>
>I don't have my copy of Python In A Nutshell to hand to check the
>index for propogation of a value but I'm assuming that it means
>to raise an exception. As the default implementation of the
>dictionary class does not raise an exception when a key is not
>found, you can raise your own. Like so:
>
>         if d.get('d') == None:
>                 raise Exception, 'Key of "d" not found'

Thanks very much again, Francis. Very clear, except for my not understanding

if __name__ == '__main__':
         func()

But that's OK. I'll get to that later.

Dick Moores