Generate new dict from diff - dict of changes

[p-baum]

Maybe I've missed something but I cant see how to generate a diff dict.

I need a dict representation of the changes to simplify database updates. Is this possible?

[mikaelho]

diff returns a generator. In your use case it sounds like you need to "instantiate" the diff with list, and if you need a dict, you need to wrap the result explicitly. So something like this?

diff_dict = {"changes": list(diff(a, b))}