.update()

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The .update() method returns new Python dictionary with entries from another dictionary, or some other iterable, added to it.

Syntax

dictionary.update(entries)

Where entries is another dictionary or an iterable of key-value pairs. Pairs in dictionary are replaced by any pair in entries with a duplicate key.

Codebyte Example

The following example creates two dictionaries, then adds the entries from one to the other.

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