Thanks. I presume this will work for my nested example as well. Thanks again. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote: > wheres pythonmonks <wherespythonmonks at gmail.com> writes: >> How do I build an "int1" type that has a default value of 1? >> [Hopefully no speed penalty.] >> I am thinking about applications with collections.defaultdict. >> You can supply an arbitary function to collections.defaultdict. > It doesn't have to be a class. E.g. >> d = collections.defaultdict(lambda: 1) >> will do what you are asking. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >