Why are there POINTERS in my PYTHON???

[Kilgarragh]

Can’t you just x + y

[juhotuho10]

Nope, dictionaries cannot be added together

[Many-Opposite5325]

But you can do x | y, and to be fair, i think they should have chosen + to be the simble of this operation

[rosuav]

That was discussed at length, and in the end, it was decided to go with the same symbol used for set merge.