get() with no default

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When you call get() with only the key and the key doesn't exist, the default is None - not a KeyError. This is the key difference from bracket access: d['y'] would raise KeyError, but d.get('y') silently returns None. You'll often see 'if d.get(key):' as a safe existence check, though 'key in d' is more explicit.