Just in case it's useful here's a function which I use:
function merge!(a::Dict, b::Dict)
for (k, v) in b
a[k] = v
end
return a
end
If you replace push! with merge! in your original example it should work as
expected.
On 27 July 2014 01:11, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You don’t push to Dict’s because they’re not ordered.
>
> You can add a entry using indexing:
>
> dc = Dict{UTF8String, Int64}()
> dc["A."] = 2
>
> — John
>
> On Jul 26, 2014, at 5:09 PM, Ben Ward <axolotlfan9...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to extend a dict with a key value pair?
>
> I don't see a method to do it in the standard library reference. There is
> a pop!, but I tried push! but it just produced an error. Perhaps I'm not
> doing it right.
>
> dc = Dict{String, Int64}()
> push!(dc, ["A." => 2])
>
>
> *Thanks,*
>
> *Ben.*
>
>
>
