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		Znafon on March 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in di... Yes, Python supports in place operators to avoid this: `def __iadd__(self, other): if isinstance(other, dict): self.update(other) return self` This would get called for `d += other`.

mroche on March 6, 2019 [–]

My follow up question would be why not do this for both union functions? I don’t see why they would want to have two functions that do the exact same thing (called differently, though) be written in two different ways.

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