[BangPypers] An interesting beginner post at Stackoverflow

[Roshan Mathews]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Sidharth Kuruvila
<sidharth.kuruvila at gmail.com> wrote:
>  d = {"a":"Hello"}
>  print d.setdefault("a", "blah")
>
>  Even though the string blah is not being used an object has to be
> created to represent it. Even worse, you could put some complex
> expression in there expecting it to evaluate only if the key is
> missing.
>
Oh, alright.

Roshan Mathews