Would there be any way to add a method to all dict objects that operated like the .update() method, but also returned a reference to the updated dict?
Are you looking for updated() to parallel sorted(), where sorted() returns a *new* list? I doubt you'll be able to rally much support for a method that changes an object and returns a reference to it -- check the archives to see these kind of things getting rejected over and over.
Could you do something like:
py> import itertools
py> d1 = dict(a=1, b=2)
py> d2 = dict(c=3, d=4)
py> d3 = dict(itertools.chain(d1.iteritems(), d2.iteritems()))
py> d3
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'd': 4}Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
