{"id":11508,"date":"2024-03-14T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-add-two-hashtables-together\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:47:37","slug":"how-do-you-add-two-hashtables-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-add-two-hashtables-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Hashtables: Simple Merge Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To add two hashtables together, you first need to iterate through one hashtable and then add each key-value pair to the other hashtable. If two hashtables have the same key, their values will be added together. Here is an example code implementation:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">def<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">add_hashtables<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-params\">ht1, ht2<\/span>):\r\n    result = ht1.copy()\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> key, value <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> ht2.items():\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> key <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> result:\r\n            result[key] += value\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">else<\/span>:\r\n            result[key] = value\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> result\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u4e24\u4e2a\u793a\u4f8bhashtable<\/span>\r\nht1 = {<span class=\"hljs-string\">'a'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'b'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'c'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span>}\r\nht2 = {<span class=\"hljs-string\">'b'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'c'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">4<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-string\">'d'<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5c06\u4e24\u4e2ahashtable\u76f8\u52a0<\/span>\r\nresult = add_hashtables(ht1, ht2)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(result)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the example above, ht1 and ht2 are two hashtables. 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