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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2012-01-27 14:14:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2012-01-27 14:14:01 (GMT) |
| commit | 871b9d169d839706492d861a20ce5d1018beebd9 (patch) | |
| tree | f13cd0ae08e46d6aef8712b46d0d3d768ed7dbec | |
| parent | 04707c032efc21a7e57d6c9a46fdda5e43171966 (diff) | |
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note that get() is not affected by default_factory (closes #13887)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index e512bf1..e90b25e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ stack manipulations such as ``dup``, ``drop``, ``swap``, ``over``, ``pick``, :class:`dict` class when the requested key is not found; whatever it returns or raises is then returned or raised by :meth:`__getitem__`. + Note that :meth:`__missing__` is *not* called for any operations besides + :meth:`__getitem__`. This means that :meth:`get` will, like normal + dictionaries, return ``None`` as a default rather than using + :attr:`default_factory`. + :class:`defaultdict` objects support the following instance variable: |