replace dict contents

[Satchidanand Haridas]

Tim Jarman wrote:

>
> On 27 Jul 2004, at 08:56, Robin Becker wrote:
>
>> Is there a simple way to replace the contents of a dictionary 
>> entirely with those of another.
>>
>> for lists we can do
>>
>> L1[:] = L2
>>
>> but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for dicts.
>> -- 
>> Robin Becker
>> -- 
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
> How about:
>
> >>> d1 = { "spam" : "eggs" }
> >>> d2 = { "gumby" : "my brain hurts!"}
> >>> d1 is d2
> False
> >>> d1 = dict(d2)
> >>> d1
> {'gumby': 'my brain hurts!'}
> >>> d1 is d2
> False
>
> HTH
>
> Tim J


Quoting from Python Language Reference:
"The operators is and is not test for object identity: |x is y| is true 
if and only if x and y are the same object. |x is not y| yields the 
inverse truth value."

d1 and d2 are not the same objects. They are two different objects 
having the same value. Hence using the 'is' operator returns false.

On the other hand, 

 >>>d3 = d2
 >>>d3 is d2
True


Regards,
Satchit

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