[Tutor] Merging dictionaries

[wesley chun]

hmmm, somewhat off-topic, i was partially confused by the Subject
line.  i thought this post was about merging *dictionaries* and not
merging the *contents of multiple dictionaries' values*.

for those who are interested in the former, you use the update()
method and here is an example:

>>> d1 = dict(zip(range(3), range(3)))
>>> d1
{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2}
>>> d2 = dict(zip(range(2,5), [i*2 for i in range(2, 5)]))
>>> d2
{2: 4, 3: 6, 4: 8}
>>> d1.update(d2)
>>> d1
{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 6, 4: 8}

notice that the update will replace any existing key with the
corresponding value of the argument dict.

cheers,
-- wesley
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