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

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

+1 on +=

Isn't that confusing ;-)

Yes, we have dict.update(), but the entire reason += exists (all the
augmented assignment operators -- they are called that, yes?) is
because we didn't want methods for everything.

It particular, I believe a major motivator was numpy, where in-place
operations are a major performance boost. Sure, numpy could have added
methods for all those, but the operator syntax is so much nicer, why
not use it where we can?

And I prefer + to | ... Seems much more obvious to me.

Chris


-Chris