Append a new value to dict

[Boris Borcic]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> While we're on
> the subject, use keyword arguments to dict like:
> 
>     foo.update(dict(quux='blah', baz='bearophile', jdd='dict'))
> 
> was *much* slower, at 11.8s.

Presumably you would save half of that time by writing simply

        foo.update(quux='blah', baz='bearophile', jdd='dict')

Cheers, BB