A hard exercise to help build the right mental model for Python data.
- Solution: https://memory-graph.com/#codeurl=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fbterwijn%2Fmemory_graph_videos%2Frefs%2Fheads%2Fmain%2Fexercises%2Fexercise26.py&play=
- Explanation: https://github.com/bterwijn/memory_graph?tab=readme-ov-file#python-data-model
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The dict union operator is similar to that of set, but in addition the right operand overwrites values of keys of the left operand. It's a nice operator once you get used to it.
Easy to make a mistake with this exercise:
b = b | {3: []}makes a shallow copy2inaso we can still append to that and changea