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Re: Creating a list with holes

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:41:21 -0500, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>> The holes would be between the items I put in. In my example above, if I
>> assigned to [10] and [20], then the other items ([0..9] and [11..19])
>> would have None.
>
>>>> dic = { 10:6, 20:11}
>>>> dic.get(10)
> 6
>>>> dic.get(14)
>>>> dic.get(27,"oh god there's nothing here")
> "oh god there's nothing here"
>>>> dic.get(99,None)
>>>> dic.get(168,False)
> False
>>>> dic.get(20,"Boo Yah")
> 11
>>>>
>
> So a standard dictionary does this returning None (or any other default
> value you care to pass it) as long as you use the dict.get(key[,default])
> method rather than dict[key] to return the value.
>
> See also:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6130768/return-none-if-dictionary-key-
> is-not-available

Thanks, but I know all that about dicts. I need to use a list for
compatibility with existing code.

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Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 10:19 -0500
  Re: Creating a list with holes eneskristo@gmail.com - 2014-01-03 07:30 -0800
    Re: Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 10:41 -0500
      Re: Creating a list with holes Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 18:07 +0000
        Re: Creating a list with holes Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 19:15 -0500
          Re: Creating a list with holes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-03 20:18 -0500
            Re: Creating a list with holes Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 02:03 +0000
  Re: Creating a list with holes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-03 10:38 -0500
    Re: Creating a list with holes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 02:46 +1100

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