Is there a clever way to pass the key to defaultdict’s default_factory?

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It hardly qualifies as clever – but subclassing is your friend:

class keydefaultdict(defaultdict):
    def __missing__(self, key):
        if self.default_factory is None:
            raise KeyError( key )
        else:
            ret = self[key] = self.default_factory(key)
            return ret

d = keydefaultdict(C)
d[x] # returns C(x)

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