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Author Paddy McCarthy
Recipients Paddy McCarthy, docs@python
Date 2018-04-06.10:13:47
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Hi, I was answering some question and used dict.setdefault as part of the solution and posted the help() on it as part of my answer.

The help was this:

In [15]: help(mapper.setdefault)
Help on built-in function setdefault:

setdefault(...) method of builtins.dict instance
    D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D

This seems the wrong way around. Is it not better expressed as

    D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> set D[k]=d if k not in D and then D.get(k,d)
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2018-04-06 10:13:47Paddy McCarthysetrecipients: + Paddy McCarthy, docs@python
2018-04-06 10:13:47Paddy McCarthysetmessageid: <1523009627.66.0.682650639539.issue33235@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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