def merge_dict()

in ludwig/utils/misc_utils.py [0:0]

• 9 lines of code
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def merge_dict(dct, merge_dct):
    """ Recursive dict merge. Inspired by :meth:``dict.update()``, instead of
    updating only top-level keys, dict_merge recurses down into dicts nested
    to an arbitrary depth, updating keys. The ``merge_dct`` is merged into
    ``dct``.
    :param dct: dict onto which the merge is executed
    :param merge_dct: dct merged into dct
    :return: None
    """
    dct = copy.deepcopy(dct)
    for k, v in merge_dct.items():
        if (k in dct and isinstance(dct[k], dict)
                and isinstance(merge_dct[k], Mapping)):
            dct[k] = merge_dict(dct[k], merge_dct[k])
        else:
            dct[k] = merge_dct[k]
    return dct