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

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/12/2015 04:19 PM, Eric Snow wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> copy-and-update:
>>>
>>>  dict(old_dict, **other_dict)
>>
>> Only works if other_dict’s keys are all valid keyword arguments and AFAIK is considered an implementation detail of CPython.
> 
> Fair point.  It seems to me that there is definitely enough interest
> in a builtin way of doing this.  My vote is for a dict classmethod.

Like __add__, for example?  ;)

--
~Ethan~

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