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Things that feel like cheating in Python:
foo.get('not_here', {}).get('also_not_here')
The first get returns {} if the value isn't there, and then the second one won't fail by trying to run a get method on None.
@dlovell Thanks. Will check it out.
@craigmaloney I do that pretty much in my work :D
But I think this is a bit ugly and there should be a better way of doing the same thing: it takes really too much space and characters to type.
But I think this is a bit ugly and there should be a better way of doing the same thing: it takes really too much space and characters to type.
@alex Considering I was thinking of using `if foo is None:`, I'm in hard agreement, but happy for the shortcut.
@craigmaloney ah, that's fine :) There is an syntactic construct I have never used for last year of python development:
```
somedict = {...}
if 'somekey' in somedict:
somevalue = somedict['somevalue']
```
I can always find an idiomatic way to make same thing simpler to read and faster to type (mostly using `dict.get`)
```
somedict = {...}
if 'somekey' in somedict:
somevalue = somedict['somevalue']
```
I can always find an idiomatic way to make same thing simpler to read and faster to type (mostly using `dict.get`)
@craigmaloney fyi: toolz provides a lot of functionality like this in a standardized way
for instance, toolz.dicttoolz.get_in
https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#toolz.dicttoolz.get_in