[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/11/2015 04:27 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> 
> I’d really like this change and I think that it makes sense. The only thing I’d change is that I think the | operator
> makes more sense than +. dicts are more like sets than they are like lists so a union operator makes more sense I think.

Maybe I'm just not steeped enough in CS, but when I want to combine two things together, my first reflex is always '+'.

I suppose I could come around to '|', though -- it does ease the tension around the behavior of duplicate keys.

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~Ethan~

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