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		JAlexoid on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft That's my major complaint about Python... For it's age and popularity - the tooling is abysmal. I have to rewrite too many things, that I expected to just be there for the age of the project. And some things were only fixed now! dict + dict only started to work with 3.9!

nomdep on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

dict1 + dict2 is syntactic sugar, you had been able to do `dict1.update(dict2)` since forever.

HelloNurse on Nov 13, 2020 | [–]

No, it's completely different: dict1+dict2 creates a new object and leaves inputs unchanged, dict1.update(dict2) modifies dict1.

slaman on Nov 16, 2020 | | [–]

you've been able to do splat for forever! https://dpaste.org/yU7s

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