Append a new value to dict

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com a écrit :
> jdd:
>> foo = {'bar': 'baz'}
>> foo.update({'quux': 'blah'})
> 
> That creates a new dict, to throw it away.

Just to make it clear for the easily confused ones (like me...): 
bearophile is talking about the dict passed as an argument to foo.update 
- not about the behaviour of dict.update itself (which of course 
modifies the dict in place) !-)