[Python-ideas] dict(default=int)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 08, 2017, at 05:49 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

>If we really want to make defaultdict feel more "builtin" (and I don't see
>any reason to do so), I'd suggest adding a factory function:
>
>dict.defaultdict(int)
>
>Similar in spirit to dict.fromkeys(), except of course returning a
>defauldict, not a dict.

Nice.

-Barry
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