From 11ae047b00c68cc9456b78a4b43212371d2c8c91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nando Florestan <nandoflorestan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 13:56:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Try (and fail) to add a defaultdict implementation

This is not working yet. Firefox complains:

    Uncaught TypeError: meta is undefined
    __class__ org.transcrypt.__runtime__.py:4
    <anonymous> collections.py:4
---
 transcrypt/modules/collections.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 transcrypt/modules/collections.py

diff --git a/transcrypt/modules/collections.py b/transcrypt/modules/collections.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1860fdb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/transcrypt/modules/collections.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+"""Python's collections module -- for Transcrypt."""
+
+
+class defaultdict(dict):
+    """Dictionary that takes a factory parameter and always returns a value."""
+
+    def __init__(self, default_factory=None, *args, **kwargs):  # noqa
+        if not callable(default_factory) and default_factory is not None:
+            raise TypeError("first argument must be callable or None")
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.default_factory = default_factory
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return "defaultdict({}, {})".format(
+            self.default_factory, super().__repr__(self)
+        )
+
+    def __missing__(self, key: str):
+        if self.default_factory is None:
+            raise KeyError(key)
+        self[key] = self.default_factory()
+        return super().__getitem__(key)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key: str):
+        try:
+            return super().__getitem__(key)
+        except KeyError:
+            return self.__missing__(key)