<dict>.setdefault()

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Tino Lange a écrit :
> I just realized that <dict>.setdefault *always* executes the second
> argument - even if it's not necessary, because the requested item in
> the first argument exists.
 
Since setdefault is a method, this is coherent with Python's standard
behaviour: method and function arguments are always evaluated before the
method is called. 

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