Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: [...] >> I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone wants to define >> dict.__add__ ... > > that's been proposed quite a few times, and always gets stuck when it's > time to define the exact semantics for dealing with collisions. there > are simply too many ways to do it, and all of them are can be trivially > and efficiently implemented in terms of copy/update or for-in (or, in > quite a few cases, by using sets instead of dicts). > But, as we both know, the fact that something can be trivially implemented in Python doesn't stop people asking for it to be added as native.
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