Resource.get overlaps dict.get method

[varelaz]

Since it's not guaranteed that some data presents it seems reasonable to check replies with dict.get method company.get('some_data', 'default').
However it's not possible, because get method is overlapped.
There is exist a workaround: company = dict(company).

[mgilson]

Another (possibly ugly) workaround is to use the unbound method:

dict.get(company, 'some_data')

This avoids copying the data at least...

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I definitely agree that this isn't ideal (though, I speak as a third-party, not for clearbit). I think that a possible solution would be to change the method names:

Resource.GET
Resource.POST
etc.

But that would definitely be a breaking change. I don't know how often those methods are actually called from client code though, so it might not be too bad (I think that usually .find is called which ultimately calls .get)...

[maccman]

Makes sense. I'll figure out a fix for this.

[jonathan-s]

I would echo this, because I just stumbled upon this gotcha..

[nilehmann]

any updates on this?

[amitay87]

Check out my branch:
#30
I wrote the functions get_field and dict()