How merge two dictionaries in a single expression?

def merge_two_dicts(x, y): z = x.copy() # start with keys and values of x z.update(y) # modifies z with keys and values of y return z x = {'a': 1, 'b': 2} y = {'b': 3, 'c': 4} z = merge_two_dicts(x, y) print(z)