unique unions of several dict keys

[python]

Hi-
I have several different dictionaries. I want to make a unique list of
all the keys in all the dictionaries. What would be the best way of doing
that?
Thanks.

[Duncan Booth]

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I have several different dictionaries. I want to make a unique list
of all the keys in all the dictionaries. What would be the best way
of doing that?

Create a new empty dictionary then use the update method on it for each of
other dictionaries. The keys of that dictionary are the values you want.

e.g.

def UniqueKeys(*dicts): tmpDict = {}
for d in dicts:
tmpDict.update(d)
return tmpDict.keys()
print UniqueKeys({ 'a':1, 'b': 2 }, {'b': 3, 'c': 4})
['a', 'c', 'b']

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