[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict (original) (raw)

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Thu Feb 12 15:46:51 CET 2015


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015, at 23:06, Greg wrote:

I think associativity is the property in question, and it does hold for string and tuple concatenation.

Dict addition could be made associative by raising an exception on duplicate keys.

Why isn't it associative otherwise?



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