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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-08-08 16:12:54 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2000-08-08 16:12:54 (GMT)
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Barry's patch to implement the new setdefault() method.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/UserDict.py4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/UserDict.py b/Lib/UserDict.py
index 3c48415..9b6e73b 100644
--- a/Lib/UserDict.py
+++ b/Lib/UserDict.py
@@ -34,3 +34,7 @@ class UserDict:
self.data[k] = v
def get(self, key, failobj=None):
return self.data.get(key, failobj)
+ def setdefault(self, key, failobj=None):
+ if not self.data.has_key(key):
+ self.data[key] = failobj
+ return self.data[key]