Hi all
I recently learned that you can create a set 'on-the-fly' from two existing
sets using the '|' operator -
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set_1 = set(('a', 'b', 'c'))
set_2 = set(('d',))
set_1 | set_2
{'d', 'a', 'c', 'b'}
I was hoping that I could do the same with a dictionary, but it does not
work -
dict_1 = {1: 'one', 2: 'two'}
dict_2 = {3: 'three'}
dict_1 | dict_2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'dict' and 'dict'
The best that I can come up with is -
dict([(k, v) for k, v in dict_1.items()] + [(k, v) for k, v in
dict_2.items()])
{1: 'one', 2: 'two', 3: 'three'}
So I have 2 questions -
1. Is there any particular reason why '|' is not supported?
2. Is there a better way to do what I want?
Thanks
Frank Millman
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