On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:11:18AM -0700, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>
wrote:
> I don't find it easy to understand or remember that d1.update(d2) modifies
> d1 in place, while d1.merge(d2) first copies d1.
>
> Maybe the name can indicate the copying stronger? Like we did with sorting:
> l.sort() sorts in-place, while sorted(l) returns a sorted copy.
Then shouldn't it be a function (not a method)? dictutils.merge()?
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
Oleg.
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