On 2012-11-14, at 21:53 , Mark Adam wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Xavier Morel <catch-...@masklinn.net> wrote: >> On 2012-11-14, at 19:54 , Mark Adam wrote: >>> >>> Merging of two dicts is done with dict.update. >> >> No, dict.update merges one dict (or two) into a third one. > > No. I think you need to read the docs.
I know what the docs say. dict.update requires an existing dict and (as mutator methods usually do in Python) doesn't return anything. Thus it merges a dict (or two) into a third one (the subject of the call). >>> How do you do it on >>> initialization? This doesn't make sense. >> >> dict(d1, **d2) > > That's not valid syntax is it? Of course it is, why would it not be? _______________________________________________ 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
