A defaultdict that yields a defaultdict that yields a defaultdict, etc...
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f = lambda: defaultdict(f)
recursive_defaultdict = defauldict(f)
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Other recipes for this often involve a ridiculous class definition with numerous overridden magic methods. YUCK. Do this instead.
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Another trick--you can set key paths of arbitrary depth like this:
from operator import getitem from collections import defaultdict
f = lambda: defaultdict(f) recursive_defaultdict = defauldict(f)
keypath = [1,2,3,4,3,2,3,4,5]
Set this keypath
reduce(getitem, [recursive_defaultdict] + keypath)
Someone could criticize this by saying "you could just set those keys with a loop. Explicit is better than implicit." To that I would say "yes, but flat is better than nested. And faster is better than slower."