[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> copy-and-update:
>>
>>  dict(old_dict, **other_dict)
>
> Only works if other_dict’s keys are all valid keyword arguments and AFAIK is considered an implementation detail of CPython.

Fair point.  It seems to me that there is definitely enough interest
in a builtin way of doing this.  My vote is for a dict classmethod.

-eric