Hi all, I am fairly new to the Python community so please forgive me (and correct me) if I am going about this wrong.
I think it would be convenient and pythonic if dict objects implemented the PySequence_Concat method. I see there was once a short-lived discussion about this here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/patches/2004-March/014323.html I have also been following the discussion about contributing to Python. It seems to me that this would be a fairly easy feature to implement (perhaps naively?), and I would be glad to try writing a patch for this if there is at least some chance of it making it into one of the branches. Can someone please advise me on what the correct order for going about this would be? Do I need to first write a PEP justifying why I think it would be an improvement? Which version of Python (if any), should a patch be targeted at? Otherwise, is there a good reason dicts do not already implement this method? I somewhat understand the complaint about commutativity, but as mentioned in the previous discussion, list concatenation is not commutative either. Seeing as update is the only builtin method for concatenation of dicts in the first place, it doesn't seem all that confusing that 'summing' two dicts should conveniently return a new instance that is the (only form of) concatenation of the two dicts. regards, jared _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
