How to merge two dictionaries

Question

I am looking to merge two dictionaries with the key as months and the values as a list of 12 values in both dictionaries. How do I merge the two dictionaries so that it does not sort into alpha order based on key. I simply want to add my second dictionary (with months June - December as keys) onto the end of my first dictionary (with months January to May as keys).

I have tried using the .concat and .append but I seem to be doing something wrong and it is sorting values.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use update function:

a = {1: 2, 2: 3}
b = {3: 4, 4: 5}
a.update(b)
a

{1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4, 4: 5}

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P.S. Note that dictionaries in Python are unordered. You can't rely on the keys order. If you want to use the ordered dictionary, you should use OrderedDict from collections module.