Merge Dictionaries

mergeDicts.py

def merge_dicts(*dict_args):
    """
    Given any number of dicts, shallow copy and merge into a new dict,
    precedence goes to key value pairs in latter dicts.
    This function will work in Python 2 and 3 for all dicts.
    e.g. given dicts a to g: z = merge_dicts(a, b, c, d, e, f, g)
    Key value pairs in g will take precedence over dicts a to f, and so on.
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38987/how-to-merge-two-dictionaries-in-a-single-expression
    """
    result = {}
    for dictionary in dict_args:
        result.update(dictionary)
    return result