On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:21 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
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>
> How about dict.merged(*args, **kw)? Or dict.updated()?
>

+1 on "merged".

I feel the word "update" indicating mutating, and it's difficult to distinguish
between "update" and "updated".

> That would eliminate some of the difficulties with an operator, such as
> the difference between + which requires both operands to be a dict
> but += which can take any mapping or (key,value) iterable.
>
> --
> Steven

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