deprecation of has_key?
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Apr 21 11:27:59 EDT 2005
Steven Bethard wrote:
>> For me dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs, but not a
>> collection of keys (that's what set is).
>
> Ahh, ok. Now I understand. I think you could probably search the
> python-dev archives and see why the decision was made as it was. For
> pretty much all my purposes, "key in dict" is much more useful than
> "item in dict". Practicality beats Purity and all. ;)
well, for all my purposes, I find that "dict.get(key)" (or sometimes "dict[key]"
is a lot more useful than has_key and in...
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