[Tutor] idiomatic way of merging two dictionaries

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 12:18:55 CET 2009


Amit Sethi wrote:
> Hi , I am trying to merge(I am not sure if that is the right term) 
> dictionaries like this
> 
> dict1 ={'a':4,'b':3,'v':7,'h':4}
> dict2={'a':5,'v':4,'k':3}
> dict3 would be {'a':[4,5],'b':[3,4],'v':[7,4],'k':[0,3],'h':[4,0]}
> 

I can't see what you're trying to do there. is 'b' supposed to be 3,4 
or 0,3?

And is th ordering between the list (i.e. 'a':[4, 5] and 'a':[5, 4]) 
significant?



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