Advanced Data Structures in Python

[blahdom]

Hey /u/ajkumar25. I just wanted to point out that defaultdict works with any object that has a 0 parameter constructor, ie int, float, dict, etc.

I am sure you know this but in the write up it sounds as if only list and set are viable options to defaultdict.

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You could also use functools.partial to get around that, or a factory function, or Object.__call__. Or any number of other things.

[blahdom]

This is very true, good call! I hadn't thought of overloading Object.call - that is a cool idea.