[Python-Dev] {}.supplement() -- poll results so far

[Tim Peters]

[Peter Funk]
> Look's like I should better forget my proposal to add a new method 
> '.supplement()' to dictionaries, which should do the opposite of
> the already available method '.update()'.  
> I summarize in cronological order:
>
>  Ka-Ping Yee: +1
>  Fred Drake: +0
>  Greg Stein: -1
>  Fredrik Lundh: -1
>  Jeremy Hylton: -1
>  Barry Warsaw: -0
>
> Are there other opinions which may change the picture? <0.1 wink>

-1 on dict.supplement(), -0 on an optional arg to dict.update(),

    dict.update(otherdict, overwrite=1)