Jinjia: how to merge dicts?

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Consider these dictionaries:

{% set dict1 = { 'a':'b', 'c':'d' } %}
{% set dict2 = { 'e':'f' } %}

How to merge them into one dictionary?

Tried these with no positive results:

{{dict1 + dict2}}
{{dict1 ~ dict2}}
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{{ dict(dict1, **dict2) }}

Obviously :wink:

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I can sort of imagine the dict(dict1, dict2) but not the **… which genius(?uh) came up with this next to all other methods to add things :crazy_face:

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Probably this is TOO genius for understanding)))
Thanks a lot!

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It’s a Python thing. dict() takes a dictionary and keyword arguments to add, like this:

{{ dict(dict1, e='f') }}

The ** effectively expands the second dictionary into keywords.

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Kind of a constructor which creates a new object using data from other objects…

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… no further comment but: thanks!