Is there a short-circuiting dictionary "get" method?
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Mar 11 04:12:19 EST 2005
Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:16943.18475.568383.983546 at montanaro.dyndns.org...
>
>> value = d.get('x') or bsf()
>>
>>Of course, this bsf() will get called if d['x'] evaluates to false, not
>>just
>>None,
>
>
> value = (d.get('x') is not None) or bsf() #??
>
Unfortunately this will set value to True for all non-None values of
d['x']. Suppose d['x'] == 3:
>>> 3 is not None
True
>>>
regards
Steve
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