alt Hacker NewsInteresting difference between Go and Python, `c.counts[name] += n` can allocate if name isn't already present, whereas in Python you get a key error.
Interesting difference between Go and Python, `c.counts[name] += n` can allocate if name isn't already present, whereas in Python you get a key error.
Isn't that mainly because Go has a somewhat insane behavior of default values?
Also I'm fairly sure you can accomplish the same thing in python with a defaultdict.