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    Hello,<br>
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    Great.<br>
    Because I don't program in any other language except Python, I can't
    make the PR (with the C code).<br>
    Maybe someone who program in C can help?<br>
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    Best regards,<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">João Matos
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27-02-2019 18:48, Guido van Rossum
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            10:42 AM Michael Selik <<a href="mailto:mike@selik.org"
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 27, 2019
                    at 10:22 AM Anders Hovmöller <<a
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                    asymmetry with sets:<br>
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                    > {1} | {2}<br>
                    {1, 2}<br>
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                    To me it makes sense that if + works for dict then
                    it should for set too. <br>
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                    / Anders<br>
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                    > On 27 Feb 2019, at 17:25, João Matos <<a
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                    > Hello,<br>
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                    > I would like to propose that instead of using
                    this (applies to Py3.5 and upwards)<br>
                    > dict_a = {**dict_a, **dict_b}<br>
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                    > we could use<br>
                    > dict_a = dict_a + dict_b<br>
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                  The dict subclass collections.Counter overrides the
                  update method for adding values instead of overwriting
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href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.Counter.update"
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                <div class="gmail_quote">Counter also uses +/__add__ for
                  a similar behavior.<br>
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                    <div>    >>> c = Counter(a=3, b=1)</div>
                    <div>    >>> d = Counter(a=1, b=2)</div>
                    <div>    >>> c + d # add two counters
                      together:  c[x] + d[x]</div>
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                  <div>    Counter({'a': 4, 'b': 3})</div>
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                  <div>At first I worried that changing base dict would
                    cause confusion for the subclass, but Counter seems
                    to share the idea that update and + are synonyms.</div>
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          <div>Great, this sounds like a good argument for + over |. The
            other argument is that | for sets *is* symmetrical, while +
            is used for other collections where it's not symmetrical. So
            it sounds like + is a winner here.<br>
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