[Tutor] get() method for dictionaries

[Greg Whittier]

I tend to use it only for the optional default argument 

d={}
d[1] = 'stuff'
d.get(1,"no stuff")
'stuff'
d.get(267,"no stuff")
'no stuff'

This is useful if you don't want to check for the key first or deal with
an exception.

Greg

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 19:34, Christopher Spears wrote:
> Why do we need the get() method for dictionaries?  On
> the surface, there doesn't seem to be a whole of
> difference between:
> 
> d = {}
> d[1] = "stuff"
> d[1]
> 'stuff'
> 
> and
> 
> d.get(1)
> 'stuff'
> 
> 
> 
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