[Python-ideas] get() method for list and tuples

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/02/2017 12:36 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 01.03.2017 06:34, Ethan Furman wrote:

>> On the bright side, if enough use-cases of this type come up (pesky try/except for a simple situation), we may be able
>> to get Guido to reconsider PEP 463.  I certainly think PEP 463 makes a lot more sense that adding list.get().
>
> It then would make sense to remove .get() on dicts.  ;-)
>
> and to remove parameter "default" of max().
> and to remove parameter "default" of getattr().

Backwards compatibility, and performance, says no.  ;)

try/except expressions are not a silver bullet any more than try/except blocks.  But they can still be very useful.

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~Ethan~