On 15/11/12 05:54, Mark Adam wrote:
Merging of two dicts is done with dict.update. How do you do it on
initialization? This doesn't make sense.
Frequently.
my_prefs = dict(default_prefs, setting=True, another_setting=False)
Notice that I'm not merging one dict into another, but merging two dicts
into a third.
(Well, technically, one of the two comes from keyword arguments rather
than an actual dict, but the principle is the same.)
The Python 1.5 alternative was:
my_prefs = {}
my_prefs.update(default_prefs)
my_prefs['setting'] = True
my_prefs['another_setting'] = False
Blah, I'm so glad I don't have to write Python 1.5 code any more. Even
using copy only saves a line:
my_prefs = default_prefs.copy()
my_prefs['setting'] = True
my_prefs['another_setting'] = False
--
Steven
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