Cheaper than fixing bugs due to illegal key access.
Cheaper than get() masking bugs in your code or dict generation.
But yes let's prematurely optimise for speed in a slow-by-default language by writing bug prone non-idiomatic code. OK.
Cheaper than get() masking bugs in your code or dict generation.
But yes let's prematurely optimise for speed in a slow-by-default language by writing bug prone non-idiomatic code. OK.
Both have valid use cases. It's weird to be sarcastic about it.