[issue9823] OrderedDict is comparable to dict
Raymond Hettinger
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 10 20:20:46 CEST 2010
Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
That is the documented and tested behavior: http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#ordereddict-objects
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Equality tests between OrderedDict objects are order-sensitive and are implemented as list(od1.items())==list(od2.items()). Equality tests between OrderedDict objects and other Mapping objects are order-insensitive like regular dictionaries. This allows OrderedDict objects to be substituted anywhere a regular dictionary is used.
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It was a basic design objective for OrderedDicts to be substitutable for regular dictionaries (that is why it subclasses from dict). This lets an OD be used just about anywhere in Python where a regular dict is expected.
Also look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle
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