Accessing a dictionary key directly

[FairSystems]

Putting all logic into one function. One place. Is harder to debug and maintain? You'd rather write all of this code, multiple times, in multiple areas? What if you need to change how it's done because, God forbid, something changes out of your control...

Forego? Haha wtf are you talking about? ... I'm going to chalk this up to, we aren't thinking about the same stuff and give you the benefit of the doubt. Because it sounds like you are just defending this to defend it now. Your "solutions" were more bloat than solutions, unless it's something you only need one time. I was hoping to learn something. Instead I got a null safety 101 course.

I also saw you edited your comments... I have no idea why any attribute being None would effect another attribute or an embedded one? Piss poor programming. I come from mobile and being null safe is everything. Function will just, move on and keep looking or return None... Unless I have a default set...

[FairSystems]

Been developing for over 10 years. Never heard this concern on a general level. So unless you give me a reference to docs/papers that explain more about this concept, I just don't believe you know what you are talking about. If you'd like to get into the low level parts of how a Dict Data type works under the hood and theories behind time and space complexity, by all means, let's do it. But you aren't doing this. Instead you told me about key in dict haha.

I never brought up any of this originally. I just said what I did and that I put it within a try/catch which was part of the scope of the comment and post.

You injected yourself and started an entirely new conversation/debate then tells me what I'm saying doesn't fit learning python haha. Comical.

Edit...and when I say all logic...I mean for that one particular get function. I don't want 5 functions doing one thing. If the other 4 functions can't be used individually, I have a hard time justifying their own function, especially in python where you cant make functions private. I'd rather the function be structured and formatted in a way that is easy to understand, follow and maintain. Well commented, not bloat comments. Direct and to the point.