From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:14:01 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: note that get() is not affected by default_factory (closes #13887)
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~119
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note that get() is not affected by default_factory (closes #13887)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index b315a73990..abb36dbbc2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -469,6 +469,11 @@ stack manipulations such as ``dup``, ``drop``, ``swap``, ``over``, ``pick``,
       :class:`dict` class when the requested key is not found; whatever it
       returns or raises is then returned or raised by :meth:`__getitem__`.
 
+      Note that :meth:`__missing__` is *not* called for any operations besides
+      :meth:`__getitem__`. This means that :meth:`get` will, like normal
+      dictionaries, return ``None`` as a default rather than using
+      :attr:`default_factory`.
+
 
    :class:`defaultdict` objects support the following instance variable: