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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by nomdep on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:32AM (#25081238)
dict1 + dict2 is syntactic sugar, you had been able to do `dict1.update(dict2)` since forever.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by HelloNurse on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:40AM (#25082619)
No, it's completely different: dict1+dict2 creates a new object and leaves inputs unchanged, dict1.update(dict2) modifies dict1.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by slaman on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:01PM (#25116294)
you've been able to do splat for forever! https://dpaste.org/yU7s
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