[Python-Dev] itertools addition: getitem()

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> How important is it to have the default in this API? __getitem__()
> doesn't have a default; instead, there's a separate API get() that
> provides a default (and I find defaulting to None more manageable than
> the "_default = object()" pattern).

getattr() has a default too, while __getattr__ hasn't...

Georg

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