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On 12/5/2014 3:51 PM, John J Posner wrote:

> The defaultdict documentation is confusing on this point. A *long* time
> ago, I filed Bug 9536 to improve the doc, but the fix hasn't bubbled to
> the surface yet.

Untrue.  Your patch 'bubbled to the surface' and got provisionally 
rejected in 5 hours and 7 minutes.  As it is, your patch is not 
acceptable.  I will say more on the issue.
http://bugs.python.org/issue9536

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy