How to use get function with a default value on a dictiontionary with tuples as keys?

Question

Basically I have a dictionary that uses a tuple as a key. I want to utilize the get() function so that I can assign a default value if the key does not exist in the dictionary. However, I get a TypeError: get() takes no keyword arguments error when I attempt to do this. Here is my code that raises an exception:

dict = {('a', 'b'): 10}
dict.get(('a', 'b'), default = 0)

How can I accomplish what I am trying to do?

wow this words. So just by removing the keyword default makes this construction work? — Anonymous, Oct 18 '21 at 07:23
Yes, and that's exactly what the error message is telling you. There are also cases with no positional arguments, that require keywords. — Mike Scotty, Oct 18 '21 at 07:24
Does this answer your question:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24463202/typeerror-get-takes-no-keyword-arguments/24463222? — Dani Mesejo, Oct 18 '21 at 07:26
Yes it does. I understand where I messed up now. Thank you all — Anonymous, Oct 18 '21 at 07:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '21 at 07:22

Use:

dict.get(('a', 'b'), 0)

The second parameter has no keyword (see python documentation on standard types)

get(key[, default])

Return the value for key if key is in the dictionary, else default. If default is not given, it defaults to None, so that this

method never raises a KeyError.

How to use get function with a default value on a dictiontionary with tuples as keys?

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