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Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist?

From Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist?
Date 2013-01-19 08:27 +0100
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Chris Rebert wrote:

>> How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
> I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?

but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's used to set a default 
value when you try to retrieve an element from the dict, not when you try to 
set a new one ...

-- 
ZeD

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Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-19 04:07 +0000
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-01-18 20:15 -0800
    Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-19 10:31 +0000
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 16:00 +1100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 08:25 +0100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 08:27 +0100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-01-19 02:35 -0500
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-01-19 09:02 +0100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 09:16 +0100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-01-19 03:18 -0500
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 09:19 +0100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-19 19:23 +1100
  Re: Safely add a key to a dict only if it does not already exist? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-19 08:04 -0500

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