On Wednesday 07 September 2005 11:10 am, bob wrote:
> I enjoy "philosophical" discussions like this. To help us have common
> terminology I present some quotes from dictionary.com:
>
> ---
> bug:
>
> An unwanted and unintended property of
I enjoy "philosophical" discussions like this. To help us have
common terminology I present some quotes from dictionary.com:
---
bug:
An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware,
especially one that causes it t
At 04:14 PM 9/6/2005, Mike Cheponis wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Danny Yoo wrote:[snip]
>
>How can I actively help fix these Python bugs?
I am concerned when you use the term "bugs". The behaviors you describe are
part of the design of Python, and they work as designed. To me a bug is a
failure o
> >> He wants c = a + b to work when a and b are dictionaries.
> >>
> >> Why is Python broken in such an obvious way?
>
> > It might not be obvious. If a and b overlap so that they share keys,
> > then we might have the following situation:
>
> I did consider that, but of course, "update" has to
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Danny Yoo wrote:
>> No, that's not what he wants.
>>
>> He wants c = a + b to work when a and b are dictionaries.
>>
>> Why is Python broken in such an obvious way?
> It might not be obvious. If a and b overlap so that they share keys, then
> we might have the following situ
> No, that's not what he wants.
>
> He wants c = a + b to work when a and b are dictionaries.
>
> Why is Python broken in such an obvious way?
Hi Mike:
It might not be obvious. If a and b overlap so that they share keys, then
we might have the following situation:
c1 = a + b
c2 = b + a
>Is this what you want ?
>
>c = dict(a)
>c.update(b)
>
>Pierre
>> Is there an easy way to combine dictionaries?
>>
>> a = {}
>> b = {}
>>
>> a = {'a':'a', 'b':'b', 'c':'c'}
>> b = {'1':1, '2':2, '3':3}
>> c = a + b # doesn't seem to work
>>
>> desired:
>> c = {'a':'a', 'b':'b', 'c':'c', '1':1,
