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Author	methane
Recipients	jdemeyer, larry, methane, python-dev, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2019-07-04.12:34:42
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Message-id	<1562243682.38.0.173094080175.issue29312@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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OK, `d1.update(*d2)` is not useful in practice. Practical usages of dict.update() are: d.update(d2) * d.update([(k1,k2),...]) * d.update(k1=v1, k2=v2, ...) * d.update(d2, d3, **d4) # little abuse, but possible. In all of them, kwdict is not used at all or can't avoid unpacking the kwdict.

OK, `d1.update(**d2)` is not useful in practice.  Practical usages of dict.update() are:

* d.update(d2)
* d.update([(k1,k2),...])
* d.update(k1=v1, k2=v2, ...)
* d.update(**d2, **d3, **d4)  # little abuse, but possible.

In all of them, kwdict is not used at all or can't avoid unpacking the kwdict.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-07-04 12:34:42	methane	set	recipients: + methane, rhettinger, vstinner, larry, python-dev, jdemeyer
2019-07-04 12:34:42	methane	set	messageid: <1562243682.38.0.173094080175.issue29312@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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