Help with Dictionaries and Classes requested please.

Sion Arrowsmith siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Aug 9 11:51:01 EDT 2007


special_dragonfly <Dominic at PLEASEASK.co.uk> wrote:
>        if key in FieldsDictionary:
>            FieldsDictionary[key].append(FieldClass(*line.split(",")))
>        else:
>            FieldsDictionary[key]=[FieldClass(*line.split(","))]

These four lines can be replaced by:

FieldsDictionary.setdefault(key, []).append(FieldClass(*line.split(",")))

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