unique unions of several dict keys

[Duncan Booth]

python at sarcastic-horse.com wrote in
news:mailman.1063641206.10374.python-list at python.org: 

> I have several different dictionaries.  I want to make a unique list
> of all the keys in all the dictionaries.  What would be the best way
> of doing that?

Create a new empty dictionary then use the update method on it for each of 
other dictionaries. The keys of that dictionary are the values you want.

e.g.

>>> def UniqueKeys(*dicts):
    tmpDict = {}
    for d in dicts:
        tmpDict.update(d)
    return tmpDict.keys()

>>> print UniqueKeys({ 'a':1, 'b': 2 }, {'b': 3, 'c': 4})

['a', 'c', 'b']
>>> 

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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