Comments on: DBus-0.33 released http://www.j5live.com/2005/04/25/dbus-033-released/ Where the urethane hits the pavement Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:34:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rjw http://www.j5live.com/2005/04/25/dbus-033-released/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 rjw Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:36:33 +0000 http://www.martianrock.com/?p=52#comment-1365 Not being funny, but you've used some odd spellings in the last few entries. Maybe get a spelll checker word press plugin or something? Not being funny, but you’ve used some odd spellings in the last few entries. Maybe get a spelll checker word press plugin or something?

]]> By: James http://www.j5live.com/2005/04/25/dbus-033-released/comment-page-1/#comment-1363 James Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:07:13 +0000 http://www.martianrock.com/?p=52#comment-1363 Just took a look at the code, and it looks pretty good. I noticed that you have some pretty bulky code for inserting values into a "dictionary of lists of strings". This is something where the dict.setdefault() method can come in handy. It checks to see if a key is in the dictionary, and if not it sets the key to the given value. So to insert a string, you'd use something like this: dict.setdefault(key, []).append(value) Just took a look at the code, and it looks pretty good. I noticed that you have some pretty bulky code for inserting values into a “dictionary of lists of strings”. This is something where the dict.setdefault() method can come in handy.

It checks to see if a key is in the dictionary, and if not it sets the key to the given value. So to insert a string, you’d use something like this:

dict.setdefault(key, []).append(value)

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