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Sun Jul 8 13:49:23 CEST 2007 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-July/073786.html

On 7/8/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> > How important is it to have the default in this API? __getitem__()
> > doesn't have a default; instead, there's a separate API get() that
> > provides a default (and I find defaulting to None more manageable than
> > the "_default = object()" pattern).
>
> getattr() has a default too, while __getattr__ hasn't...

Fair enough.

But I still want to hear of a practical use case for the default here.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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