Thank you all for the replies.
Norman
On 8/7/08, wesley chun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmmm, somewhat off-topic, i was partially confused by the Subject
> line. i thought this post was about merging *dictionaries* and not
> merging the *contents of multiple dictionaries' values*.
>
> for those who are interested in the former, you use the update()
> method and here is an example:
>
> >>> d1 = dict(zip(range(3), range(3)))
> >>> d1
> {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2}
> >>> d2 = dict(zip(range(2,5), [i*2 for i in range(2, 5)]))
> >>> d2
> {2: 4, 3: 6, 4: 8}
> >>> d1.update(d2)
> >>> d1
> {0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 4, 3: 6, 4: 8}
>
> notice that the update will replace any existing key with the
> corresponding value of the argument dict.
>
> cheers,
> -- wesley
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