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I miss Perl. I am deeply annoyed that the Perl developers wandered off into research land, effectively killing Perl 5 while they went in search of the elusive New! and Improved! Perl 6 (and the world moved to Python).
I am enrolled in a Data Science course. I am learning Python. There are some nice features (and some bone-headed stupid ideas) in Python.
Today I learned about "defaultdict". It's a feature that must be imported from the Collections package. It's not part of the primary source tree.
It's for "Creating dictionaries of an unknown structure —
Occasionally, you'll need a structure to hold nested data, and you may not be certain that the keys will all actually exist. This can be an issue if you're trying to append items to a list for that key."
Wow. Gosh.
Yeah.
Perl Just Did That.
I _expect that_.
sigh.
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vlbrown-mzydt 
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