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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:33 +0100
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On 11/04/2011 23:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, MRAB<python@mrabarnett.plus.com>  wrote:
>> I'm not sure that "setdefault" should take **kw args for this because
>> of its existing argument structure (key + optional value).
>>
>> A new method like "updatedefault" may be better, IMHO. It would act
>> like "update" except that it wouldn't overwrite existing values.
>
> Wouldn't x.updatedefault(y) be pretty much y.update(x) ?
>
I suppose it would, except that it wouldn't be in-place as such, and it
wouldn't be as efficient if you're wanting to default only a few
entries in a larger dict.