From f561db1423a05034e6cd426945eb06569d4008c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarius Jenkins <jarius.jenkins@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:40:39 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Added in basic dict attribute/method 'get' which supports
 default return values or None

---
 multi_key_dict/multi_key_dict.py | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/multi_key_dict/multi_key_dict.py b/multi_key_dict/multi_key_dict.py
index 1f2b12b..a8c624d 100644
--- a/multi_key_dict/multi_key_dict.py
+++ b/multi_key_dict/multi_key_dict.py
@@ -276,7 +276,12 @@ class multi_key_dict(object):
             keys.append(key_type(key_val))
         return(tuple(keys))
 
-
+    def get(self, key, default=None):
+        """ Return the value at index specified as key."""
+        if self.has_key(key):
+            return self.items_dict[self.__dict__[str(type(key))][key]]
+        else:
+            return default
 
 def test_multi_key_dict():    
     m = multi_key_dict()
@@ -456,6 +461,12 @@ def test_multi_key_dict():
     # test keys()
     assert (m.keys(int) == tst_range), 'm.keys(int) is not as expected.'
 
+    # test get functionality of basic dictionaries
+    m['CanIGet'] = 'yes'
+    assert (m.get('CanIGet') == 'yes')
+    assert (m.get('ICantGet') == None)
+    assert (m.get('ICantGet', "Ok") == "Ok")
+
     print 'All test passed OK!'