[issue38278] Need a more efficient way to perform dict.get(key, default)

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at python.org> added the comment:

> Lots of solutions are possible - maybe some kind of peephole optimization to make dict.get() itself perform similarly to the [] operator, or if that's challenging perhaps providing a class or option that behaves like defaultdict but without the auto-adding behaviour and with comparable [] performance to the "dict" type - for example dict.raiseExceptionOnMissing=False, or perhaps even some kind of new syntax (e.g. dict['key', default=None]). Which option would be easiest/nicest?

This issue doesn't propose any concrete solution, but discuss ideas. I suggest you to open a thread on the python-ideas mailing list instead. I suggest to close this issue.

I bet that defaultdict is *not* faster once you will manage to write a fair micro-benchmark.

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