[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Fri Feb 13 07:21:00 CET 2015
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:52:09PM -0800, Andrew Barnert wrote:
> > - Surely this change is minor enough that it doesn't need a PEP? It just
> > needs a patch and approval from a senior developer with commit
> > privileges.
>
> I'm not sure about this. If you want to change MutableMapping.update
> too, you'll be potentially breaking all kinds of existing classes that
> claim to be a MutableMapping and override update with a method with a
> now-incorrect signature.
Fair enough. It's a bigger change than I thought, but I still think it
is worth doing.
--
Steve
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