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Author ExplodingCabbage
Recipients ExplodingCabbage, rhettinger
Date 2019-09-30.14:32:31
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I'm aware of __missing__. However, I don't think its existence is by itself a knockdown argument against doing this. __missing__ also fulfils the need satisfied by defaultdict, yet Python still has both - and the latter is almost always more convenient to use when it's possible to do so.
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