efficient updating of nested dictionaries

[Ben Finney]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:32:28 -0500, Rich Krauter wrote:
> Oh crap. Sorry about the html emails. I've been meaning to turn that
> off. Thanks for reminding me.

Much better!  Thanks for being considerate.

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