Nice list. I only wish the author warned the readers that using the "get" method to get an item from the dictionary is not 100% equivalent to using try/except.

Nice list. I only wish the author warned the readers that using the "get" method to get an item from the dictionary is not 100% equivalent to using try/except. When using the method, the default value argument will always be evaluated, regardless of whether the dictionary key exists. If the expression that produces the default value is an expensive one or has side effects, the programmer might want to use the try/except variant instead.