[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict

[Donald Stufft]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I’ve wanted this several times, explicitly the copying variant of it. I always
>> get slightly annoyed whenever I have to manually spell out the copy and the
>> update.
> 
> copy-and-update:
> 
>  dict(old_dict, **other_dict)
> 

Only works if other_dict’s keys are all valid keyword arguments and AFAIK is considered an implementation detail of CPython.

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