py: Implement full behaviour of dict.update(), and dict().

Add keyword args to dict.update(), and ability to take a dictionary as
argument.

dict() class constructor can now use dict.update() directly.

This patch loses fast path for dict(other_dict), but is that really
needed?  Any anyway, this idiom will now re-hash the dictionary, so is
arguably more memory efficient.

Addresses issue #647.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/basics/dict_construct.py b/tests/basics/dict_construct.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0035e9c0f9
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+++ b/tests/basics/dict_construct.py
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+# dict constructor
+
+d = dict()
+print(d)
+
+d = dict({1:2})
+print(d)
+
+d = dict(a=1)
+print(d)
+
+d = dict({1:2}, a=3)
+print(d[1], d['a'])
+
+d = dict([(1, 2)], a=3, b=4)
+print(d[1], d['a'], d['b'])