On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:06:26 -0800 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > It destroy's the chaining value and pretty much makes the improvement not an > improvement. If there's a possibility that > the same key could be in more than one of the dictionaries then you still > have to do the > > dict.update(another_dict)
So what? Is the situation where chaining is desirable common enough? Not every new feature warrants a syntax addition - especially when it raises eyebrows as here, and ends up being as obscure as Perl code. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com