From 871b9d169d839706492d861a20ce5d1018beebd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:14:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] note that get() is not affected by default_factory (closes #13887) --- Doc/library/collections.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst index e512bf1b645..e90b25e8705 100644 --- a/Doc/library/collections.rst +++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst @@ -468,6 +468,11 @@ stack manipulations such as ``dup``, ``drop``, ``swap``, ``over``, ``pick``, :class:`dict` class when the requested key is not found; whatever it returns or raises is then returned or raised by :meth:`__getitem__`. + Note that :meth:`__missing__` is *not* called for any operations besides + :meth:`__getitem__`. This means that :meth:`get` will, like normal + dictionaries, return ``None`` as a default rather than using + :attr:`default_factory`. + :class:`defaultdict` objects support the following instance variable: