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diff Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @ 33003:b5dcfe7a4159 legacy-trunk
Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None. Inspired by
Michael Chermside's thinking about patch #748126 (the chief upshot of
which thinking was "reject it!").
| author | Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net> |
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| date | Sat, 07 Aug 2004 16:41:34 +0000 |
| parents | 9b188158181f |
| children | f27935b46985 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Sat Aug 07 16:38:40 2004 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Sat Aug 07 16:41:34 2004 +0000 @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ \item[(5)] \function{setdefault()} is like \function{get()}, except that if \var{k} is missing, \var{x} is both returned and inserted into -the dictionary as the value of \var{k}. +the dictionary as the value of \var{k}. \var{x} defaults to \var{None}. \item[(6)] \function{popitem()} is useful to destructively iterate over a dictionary, as often used in set algorithms.