[Programming] Am I the only one...?

There's a way around that.

value = dict.get(keyName, defaultValue)

So...

Dict = {'1':'my value'}
value = Dict.get('1', 'NULL') #Returns 'my value'
value = Dict.get('2', 'NULL') #Returns 'NULL'

Or you can do...

Code:

if key in Dict:
   #Do something
else:
   #do something else

No try/except required.

ALL Python code I write has try/catch exceptions as a last resort because I consider it to be poor programming.

Oh, I know. But dict[key] should return null/nil when key's not found!

 Also...

It's strictly speaking a workaround working in the same manner. It's kinda like an optimized

Code:

def get (key, ifnot):
  try:
    self[key]
  except Exception:
    ifnot