diff -r 8c49f7fbba1d Objects/listobject.c
--- a/Objects/listobject.c	Tue Apr 19 09:47:16 2011 +0200
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c	Tue Apr 19 16:16:33 2011 +0200
@@ -2209,6 +2209,41 @@
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+listget(PyListObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+    PyObject *index;
+    PyObject *default_;
+    PyObject *value;
+    
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OO:get", &index, &default_))
+        return NULL;
+    if (PyIndex_Check(index)) {
+        Py_ssize_t i;
+        i = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(index, PyExc_IndexError);
+        if (i == -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
+            return NULL;
+        if (i < 0)
+            i += PyList_GET_SIZE(self);
+        value = list_item(self, i);
+        if (!value){
+            PyErr_Clear();
+            Py_INCREF(default_);
+            return default_;
+        }
+        else {
+            Py_INCREF(value);
+            return value;
+        }
+    }
+    else {
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+                     "list indices must be integers, not %.200s",
+                     index->ob_type->tp_name);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+}
+
 static int
 list_traverse(PyListObject *o, visitproc visit, void *arg)
 {
@@ -2362,6 +2397,9 @@
 "L.reverse() -- reverse *IN PLACE*");
 PyDoc_STRVAR(sort_doc,
 "L.sort(key=None, reverse=False) -- stable sort *IN PLACE*");
+PyDoc_STRVAR(get_doc,
+"L.get(index, default) -- return L[index] if index < len(L) and default \n"
+"otherwise.");
 
 static PyObject *list_subscript(PyListObject*, PyObject*);
 
@@ -2380,6 +2418,7 @@
     {"count",           (PyCFunction)listcount,   METH_O, count_doc},
     {"reverse",         (PyCFunction)listreverse, METH_NOARGS, reverse_doc},
     {"sort",            (PyCFunction)listsort,    METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS, sort_doc},
+    {"get",             (PyCFunction)listget,     METH_VARARGS, get_doc},
     {NULL,              NULL}           /* sentinel */
 };