reduce() anomaly?

[Jeremy Fincher]

Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Xns942B93E4AE037duncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1>...
> which can be written more concisely without the lambda:
> 
>   d = {}
>   map(d.update, l)

Although he shouldn't be using map at all for this case; he's not
using the resulting list.

Just a plan for loop will suffice:

for otherDict in l:
    d.update(otherDict)

Jeremy