On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:18:18 +0200, Thomas Bach wrote:
> Imagine you have two data sets:
>
> d1 = {'foo': None}
> d2 = {'foo': 8}
>
> Where I would assume that d1 has "foo" not set. That's why I want this
> whole "merge"-thing in the first place: to be able to extract the type
> {'foo': None} from d1 and {'foo': int} from d2 and merge the two
> together which should result in {'foo': int}.
That becomes trivial if you do the merge before converting to types:
d3 = d1.copy() # the merged dict
for key, value in d2.items():
if key in d1 and d1[key] is None:
d3[key] = value # merge
Now pass d3 to your recursive_type function.
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