.update()
Published May 23, 2022
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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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