Python3: ChainMap
Since Python 3.3 You can chain dictionaries which contain the same key in a prioritized order: from collections import ChainMap prio_1 = {“param_1”: “foo”} prio_2 = {“param_1”: “foobar”, “param_2”: “bar”} combined = ChainMap(prio_1, prio_2) print(combined[“param_1”]) # outputs ‘foo’ print(combined[“param_2”]) # outputs ‘bar’ The param_1 from the prio_1 dictionary is dominant, so it isn’t overwritten by…