Thomas Heller writes:
> I was thinking of a popitem() dictionary method taking
> (optionally) 2 arguments: the name of the item to pop,
> and the default value to return if the item is not present
A one-arg version of the {}.popitem() method was discussed
extensively, but some people did not think it sufficiently useful to
include that variation. (I don't think anyone suggested a 2-arg
version at the time.)
This certainly leads me to think the decision not to support a
one-arg version should be considered, or maybe a two-arg version.
However, I do expect the usage with args and without args are
substantially different. Perhaps there should be a different method
that has the one- and two-arg versions you describe, but does not
support the 0-arg semantics of the current popitem()? The catch is
that I'd name this popitem() as well. ;-)
Anyone else?
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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