[Tutor] defaultdict(set)

[Kent Johnson]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Dinesh B Vadhia
<dineshbvadhia at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using defaultdict(set) to store a dictionary d = {value : set_items}
> where value = integer and set_items = set() of  characters and it works
> perfectly.
>
> I would like to also store the length of the set ie. l = len(set_items) with
> the dictionary but don't how to do it using a defaultdict().  Any ideas?

Why not just take the length when you need it? There is no need to
store it separately. e.g. len(d[3])

Kent