On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:45 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:35:36 +1100 > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:35 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > but it's NOT a new operator, it is making use of an existing one, and > > > > sure > > > > you could guess at a couple meanings, but the merge one is probably one > > > > of > > > > the most obvious to guess, and one quick test and you know -- I really > > > > can't see it being a ongoing source of confusion. > > > > > > Did you actually read what I said? The problem is not to understand > > > what dict.__add__ does. It's to understand what code using the + > > > operator does, without knowing upfront whether the inputs are dicts. > > > > The + operator adds two things together. I don't understand the issue here. > > I'm not expecting you to understand, either. >
... then, in the interests of productive discussion, could you please explain? What is it about dict addition that makes it harder to understand than other addition? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
