On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 03:12:52PM +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> (also, don't forget you can still use the copy() + update() method)
If we had fluent method calls, we could write:
process(mapping.copy().update(other))
but we don't, so we use a pointless temporary variable:
temp = mapping.copy()
temp.update(other)
process(temp)
del temp # don't pollute the global namespace
turning what ought to be a simple expression into an extra two or three
statements.
--
Steven
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