Let us suppose two dictionaries storing ages of different individuals:
list1 = {"Pierre": 28, "Jeanne": 27} list2 = {"Marc": 32, "Helene": 34} |
If you do mind losing the contents of either list1 or list2 variable, you can update one of the other as follows:
list1.update(list2) |
Now list1 variable contains:
{"Pierre": 28, "Jeanne": 27, "Marc": 32, "Helene": 34} |
while list2 is unchanged.
Usually, this is not what you want though. Instead, you would prefer to create a third variable keeping list1 and list2 unchanged.
In Python 3.5 or greater, you can use the following syntax:
fulllist = {**list1, **list2} |
In Python 2 or 3.4 and below, you need to copy one of the variable and update it:
full_list = list1.copy() # this keeps list1 unchanged full_list.update(list2) # inplace update of the variable full_list |
The second method is more generic and would be more backward compatible (if you plan to provide your code to Python 2 users. Indeed, it would work for Python 2 and 3. However, it would be slower for Python 3.5 users (and above).
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