If I understand correct you will have something like this: <input value=”default” id=”sth” name=”sth” type=”hidden”> And to get it you have to write: @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.sth, new { Value = “default” }) for Strongly-typed view.
Your two examples do the same thing, but that doesn’t mean get and setdefault do. The difference between the two is basically manually setting d[key] to point to the list every time, versus setdefault automatically setting d[key] to the list only when it’s unset. Making the two methods as similar as possible, I ran from … Read more
You could say defaultdict is useful for settings defaults before filling the dict and setdefault is useful for setting defaults while or after filling the dict. Probably the most common use case: Grouping items (in unsorted data, else use itertools.groupby) # really verbose new = {} for (key, value) in data: if key in new: … Read more