How to merge two dictionaries in a single expression?

Question

I have two Python dictionaries, and I want to write a single expression that returns these two dictionaries, merged. The `update()` method would be what I need, if it returned its result instead of modifying a dict in-place. >>> x = {'a':1, 'b': 2} >>> y = {'b':10, 'c': 11} >>> z = x.update(y) >>> print(z) None >>> x {'a': 1, 'b': 10, 'c': 11}How can I get that final merged dict in `z`, not `x`?(To be extra-clear, the last-one-wins conflict-handling of `dict.update()` is what I'm looking for as well.)

Answer 1

z={\**x,\**y}

REMOVE the \ . I put those there because otherwise the code on this site doesn't let me post it.

z={starstarx,starstary} ok