dict.update

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Sep 2, 8:04 am, Mike P <michael.pearm... at tangozebra.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have two dictionaries e.g
> dict1 = {123:3,234:5,456:3}
> dict2 = {123:4,157:2,234:5,456:3,567:2}
>
> I want to merge these two dictionaries together so i have a resultant
> dictionary of:
>
> dict3 = {123:[4,3],157:[2,0],234:[5,5],456:[3,3],567:[2,0]}
>
> As later on i want to write a csv file that would have the form
>
> id      var1  var2
> 123     4      3
> 157     2      0
>
> i looks like the dict.update looks almost there but i can't get it to
> work properly, can anyone offer any advise?

The update() method is not quite right for your purposes.
But a simple generator expression will do the trick:


>>> dict((k, [v, dict1.get(k, 0)]) for k, v in dict2.items())
{456: [3, 3], 234: [5, 5], 123: [4, 3], 157: [2, 0], 567: [2, 0]}


Raymond