Keeping track of things with dictionaries

[Josh English]

On Sunday, April 6, 2014 12:44:13 AM UTC-7, Giuliano Bertoletti wrote:


> obj = brands_seen.get(brandname)
> 
> if obj is None:
>     obj = Brand()
>     brands_seen[brandname] = obj
> 
> 

Would dict.setdefault() solve this problem? Is there any advantage to defaultdict over setdefault()

Josh