keep highest value of duplicate keys in dicts

Question

For school i am writing a small program for a rankinglist for a game. I am using dicts for this, with the name of the player as keyname, and the score as keyvalue. there wil

Answer 1

Here's a variation on Matt Eding's answer that compares each value individually instead of creating sets of values. As a plus, it doesn't need any imports.

def combine_dicts(func, *dicts):
    d0 = {}
    for d in dicts:
        for k, v in d.items():
            if k not in d0:
                d0[k] = v
            else:
                d0[k] = func(v, d0[k])
    return d0