30-seconds-of-code/snippets/merge_dictionaries.md

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title	tags
merge_dictionaries	dictionary,intermediate

Merges two or more dictionaries.

Create a new dict() and loop over dicts, using dictionary.update() to add the key-value pairs from each one to the result.

def merge_dictionaries(*dicts):
  res = dict()
  for d in dicts:
    res.update(d)
  return res

ages_one = {
  "Peter": 10,
  "Isabel": 11,
}
ages_two = {
  "Anna": 9
}
merge_dictionaries(ages_one, ages_two) # { "Peter": 10, "Isabel": 11, "Anna": 9 }