note that get() is not affected by default_factory (closes #13887)
diff --git a/Doc/library/collections.rst b/Doc/library/collections.rst
index e512bf1..e90b25e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/collections.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/collections.rst
@@ -468,6 +468,11 @@
:class:`dict` class when the requested key is not found; whatever it
returns or raises is then returned or raised by :meth:`__getitem__`.
+ Note that :meth:`__missing__` is *not* called for any operations besides
+ :meth:`__getitem__`. This means that :meth:`get` will, like normal
+ dictionaries, return ``None`` as a default rather than using
+ :attr:`default_factory`.
+
:class:`defaultdict` objects support the following instance variable: