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help(collections.defaultdict)









    



Help on class defaultdict in module collections:

class defaultdict(__builtin__.dict)
 |  defaultdict(default_factory[, ...]) --> dict with default factory
 |  
 |  The default factory is called without arguments to produce
 |  a new value when a key is not present, in __getitem__ only.
 |  A defaultdict compares equal to a dict with the same items.
 |  All remaining arguments are treated the same as if they were
 |  passed to the dict constructor, including keyword arguments.
 |  
 |  Method resolution order:
 |      defaultdict
 |      __builtin__.dict
 |      __builtin__.object
 |  
 |  Methods defined here:
 |  
 |  __copy__(...)
 |      D.copy() -> a shallow copy of D.
 |  
 |  __getattribute__(...)
 |      x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name
 |  
 |  __init__(...)
 |      x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature
 |  
 |  __missing__(...)
 |      __missing__(key) # Called by __getitem__ for missing key; pseudo-code:
 |      if self.default_factory is None: raise KeyError((key,))
 |      self[key] = value = self.default_factory()
 |      return value
 |  
 |  __reduce__(...)
 |      Return state information for pickling.
 |  
 |  __repr__(...)
 |      x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
 |  
 |  copy(...)
 |      D.copy() -> a shallow copy of D.
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Data descriptors defined here:
 |  
 |  default_factory
 |      Factory for default value called by __missing__().
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Methods inherited from __builtin__.dict:
 |  
 |  __cmp__(...)
 |      x.__cmp__(y) <==> cmp(x,y)
 |  
 |  __contains__(...)
 |      D.__contains__(k) -> True if D has a key k, else False
 |  
 |  __delitem__(...)
 |      x.__delitem__(y) <==> del x[y]
 |  
 |  __eq__(...)
 |      x.__eq__(y) <==> x==y
 |  
 |  __ge__(...)
 |      x.__ge__(y) <==> x>=y
 |  
 |  __getitem__(...)
 |      x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
 |  
 |  __gt__(...)
 |      x.__gt__(y) <==> x>y
 |  
 |  __iter__(...)
 |      x.__iter__() <==> iter(x)
 |  
 |  __le__(...)
 |      x.__le__(y) <==> x<=y
 |  
 |  __len__(...)
 |      x.__len__() <==> len(x)
 |  
 |  __lt__(...)
 |      x.__lt__(y) <==> x<y
 |  
 |  __ne__(...)
 |      x.__ne__(y) <==> x!=y
 |  
 |  __setitem__(...)
 |      x.__setitem__(i, y) <==> x[i]=y
 |  
 |  __sizeof__(...)
 |      D.__sizeof__() -> size of D in memory, in bytes
 |  
 |  clear(...)
 |      D.clear() -> None.  Remove all items from D.
 |  
 |  fromkeys(...)
 |      dict.fromkeys(S[,v]) -> New dict with keys from S and values equal to v.
 |      v defaults to None.
 |  
 |  get(...)
 |      D.get(k[,d]) -> D[k] if k in D, else d.  d defaults to None.
 |  
 |  has_key(...)
 |      D.has_key(k) -> True if D has a key k, else False
 |  
 |  items(...)
 |      D.items() -> list of D's (key, value) pairs, as 2-tuples
 |  
 |  iteritems(...)
 |      D.iteritems() -> an iterator over the (key, value) items of D
 |  
 |  iterkeys(...)
 |      D.iterkeys() -> an iterator over the keys of D
 |  
 |  itervalues(...)
 |      D.itervalues() -> an iterator over the values of D
 |  
 |  keys(...)
 |      D.keys() -> list of D's keys
 |  
 |  pop(...)
 |      D.pop(k[,d]) -> v, remove specified key and return the corresponding value.
 |      If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised
 |  
 |  popitem(...)
 |      D.popitem() -> (k, v), remove and return some (key, value) pair as a
 |      2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.
 |  
 |  setdefault(...)
 |      D.setdefault(k[,d]) -> D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D
 |  
 |  update(...)
 |      D.update([E, ]**F) -> None.  Update D from dict/iterable E and F.
 |      If E present and has a .keys() method, does:     for k in E: D[k] = E[k]
 |      If E present and lacks .keys() method, does:     for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v
 |      In either case, this is followed by: for k in F: D[k] = F[k]
 |  
 |  values(...)
 |      D.values() -> list of D's values
 |  
 |  viewitems(...)
 |      D.viewitems() -> a set-like object providing a view on D's items
 |  
 |  viewkeys(...)
 |      D.viewkeys() -> a set-like object providing a view on D's keys
 |  
 |  viewvalues(...)
 |      D.viewvalues() -> an object providing a view on D's values
 |  
 |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 |  Data and other attributes inherited from __builtin__.dict:
 |  
 |  __hash__ = None
 |  
 |  __new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object>
 |      T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T