Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Feb 19 02:50:44 CET 2006

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Would people perhaps feel better if defaultdict
*wasn't* a subclass of dict, but a distinct mapping
type of its own? That would make it clearer that it's
not meant to be a drop-in replacement for a dict
in arbitrary contexts.

Greg

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