Combining two dictionaries into one with the same keys?

Question

I\'ve looked through a few of the questions here and none of them seem to be exactly my problem. Say I have 2 dictionaries, and they are dict1

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Answer 1

This is another way to do it, and will work regardless if the keys are present in only one or in both dictionaries.

def merge_dicts(dict_a, dict_b):
    merged_dict = {key: [value] for key, value in dict_a.iteritems()}
    for key, value in dict_a.iteritems():
        try:
            merged_dict[key].append(value)
        except KeyError:
            meeged_dict[key] = [value]
    return ret_dict