
Feb. 12, 2015
2:49 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, at 05:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I think this is a feature that is more useful in theory than in practice. Which we already have a way to do a merge in place, and a copy-and-merge seems like it should be useful but I'm struggling to think of any use-cases for it. I've never needed this, and I've never seen anyone ask how to do this on the tutor or python-list mailing lists.
It's also an attractive nuisance - most cases I can think of for it would be better served by a view.