Point out that the setdefault defaults the value to None. Inspired by

Michael Chermside's thinking about patch #748126 (the chief upshot of
which thinking was "reject it!").
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@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ provided and \var{k} is not in the map, \code{None} is returned.
\item[(5)] \function{setdefault()} is like \function{get()}, except
that if \var{k} is missing, \var{x} is both returned and inserted into
the dictionary as the value of \var{k}.
the dictionary as the value of \var{k}. \var{x} defaults to \var{None}.
\item[(6)] \function{popitem()} is useful to destructively iterate
over a dictionary, as often used in set algorithms.