The value you provide as the second argument must be a dictionary. Google kwargs python for lots of more in depth info
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I was googling a way to do something like > mydict=mydict.extend(additionaldict) > > and someone on a forum recommends this: > mydict=dict(mydict, **additionaldict) > What is the ** doing here? I tried to look it up, but Google seems to > ignore it since it is punctuation. The poster on the forum says it > will put all elements of additionaldict in mydict that are not already > in mydict, which is the behavior I am looking for, but I am not sure > why this would be so. TIA. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Joel Goldstick
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