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| -rw-r--r-- | python/vyos/configdict.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/vyos/configdict.py b/python/vyos/configdict.py index 4708d3b50..973fbdd8b 100644 --- a/python/vyos/configdict.py +++ b/python/vyos/configdict.py @@ -87,6 +87,19 @@ def retrieve_config(path_hash, base_path, config): return config_hash +def dict_merge(source, destination): + """ Merge two dictionaries. Only keys which are not present in destination + will be copied from source, anything else will be kept untouched. Function + will return a new dict which has the merged key/value pairs. """ + from copy import deepcopy + tmp = deepcopy(destination) + + for key, value in source.items(): + if key not in tmp.keys(): + tmp[key] = value + + return tmp + def list_diff(first, second): """ Diff two dictionaries and return only unique items |