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In Python, a default dictionary is a dictionary with a default value assigned to any keys in the dictionary. When accessing a non-existent key, a regular dictionary would raise a KeyError exception, while a default dictionary would return the default value.<\/p>\n

The following is the usage method of the default dictionary:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Import the defaultdict module.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    from<\/span> collections import<\/span> defaultdict\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
      \n
    1. Create a default dictionary object with a specified default value type.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      my_dict = defaultdict(int<\/span>)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
      In the above example, a default dictionary object named my_dict is created with the default value type set to integer.<\/p>\n
        \n
      1. Add key-value pairs:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        my_dict['a'<\/span>] = 1<\/span>\r\nmy_dict['b'<\/span>] = 2<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
          \n
        1. Accessing the value in a dictionary:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          print<\/span>(my_dict['a'<\/span>])  # \u8f93\u51fa: 1<\/span>\r\nprint<\/span>(my_dict['c'<\/span>])  # \u8f93\u51fa: 0\uff08\u672a\u627e\u5230\u952e\uff0c\u8fd4\u56de\u9ed8\u8ba4\u503c0\uff09<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
          In the example above, when accessing the existing key ‘a’, it returns the corresponding value of 1; when accessing the non-existing key ‘c’, it will return the default value of 0 due to the use of a default dictionary.<\/p>\n
          It is important to note that when initializing a default dictionary, you need to specify a default value type, such as int, list, str, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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