[Python-ideas] should `dict` supply a default `__missing__` implementation?
Neil Girdhar
mistersheik at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 15:18:00 EDT 2016
But neither UserDict nor MutableMapping defines __missing__ ? What is a
subclasser supposed to do?
On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 4:59:03 PM UTC-4, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> UserDict is superseded by MutableMapping.
>
> I don't think we should make dict a kitchen sink class. I also don't
> think we should particularly encourage subclassing it. So -1 on adding
> dict.__missing__.
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > On 06/29/2016 12:09 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> >> So providing the comprehensive base class is up to the user, not up to
> >> the stdlib. Is that such a big deal?
> >
> >
> > No, it's not. But it makes for a better user experience if the base
> class
> > has the __missing__ method that raises a KeyError already.
> >
> > Didn't we add a UserDict that could be subclassed primarily because
> > subclassing dict directly was such a poor user experience?
> >
> > If adding __missing__ to dict is huge (performance hit?), we don't do
> it.
> > If it's not, I think we should. Maybe add it to UserDict if performance
> is
> > a concern?
> >
> >
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