[Zope3-dev] interface conventions: default=_RAISE_ERROR

[Jim Fulton]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> 
> Maybe handling the default should be the applications responsibility. Explicit
> if you will:
> 
> no_value = object()
> value = someob.get(key, no_value)
> if value is no_value:
>     ...We got nothin'...
> 
> A bit more verbose, but pretty clear I think, no?

Pretty clear, but too verbose and too inefficient. I'd much rather
have a different method that I could call.

Jim


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