[Python-ideas] Have dict().update() return its own reference.

[Laurens Van Houtven]

That's not actually true. **kwargs can contain things that aren't strings :)

cheers
lvh



On 20 Apr 2012, at 15:37, Sven Marnach wrote:

> Masklinn schrieb am Fri, 20. Apr 2012, um 14:47:34 +0200:
>> If you start from dict instances, you could always use:
>> 
>>    merged = dict(x, **y)
> 
> No, not always.  Only if all keys of `y` are strings (and probably
> they should also be valid Python identifiers.)
> 
> Cheers,
>    Sven
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