Roy Hyunjin Han wrote:
It would be convenient if replacing items in a dictionary returns the new dictionary, in a manner analogous to str.replace(). What do you think? ::# Current behavior x = {'key1': 1} x.update(key1=3) == None x == {'key1': 3} # Original variable has changed # Possible behavior x = {'key1': 1} x.replace(key1=3) == {'key1': 3} x == {'key1': 1} # Original variable is unchanged _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/marks%40dcs.gla.ac.uk
Could you please post this to python-ideas, rather than python-dev Python-dev is about aspects of the implementation, not significant language changes. Mark. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
