On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:47:13 GMT, Rick Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could live with creating a new dict, sure (although it seems wasteful). I > realize that something like this probably doesn't stand a chance of ever > making it into the std library for what might be called "philosophical" > reasons. I just want it for me (my personal philosophy runs more to the > pragmatic -- well at least for coding). > > I suppose the in-place version would be more along the lines of: > > >>> def updated(d, updates): > ... d.update(updates) > ... return d > ... > >>> [updated(d, {'c':3}) for d in [{'a':1, 'b':2}, {'x':10, 'y':'11'}]] > [{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}, {'y': '11', 'x': 10, 'c': 3}] > > But I'd like to put the "updated" method on the "dict" object, which is what > I can't seem to figure out. > Yeah I know that's "bad", but to my mind so is polluting the global > namespace with the "updated" function.
[dict(d.items() + {'c':3}.items()) for d in [{'a':1, 'b':2}, {'x':10, 'y':'11'}]] seems logical enough to me.... > -- Or maybe I'm just lazy and picked up too many bad habits from > Javascript. probably. Stephen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list