[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] hello, new dict addition for new eve ?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 3 22:02:04 CET 2012
On 1/3/2012 11:59 AM, Nathan Rice wrote:
> This is slightly tangential, but I've always wondered... Why aren't
> set operations implemented on dicts? It is fairly natural to view a
> dictionary as a set of (key, value) pairs. Things like
> subset/superset checking (with concomitant operator support) make
> sense. I have written stuff like set(dict1.items())<
> set(dict2.items()) many times.
As a said earlier in this thread, being able to view dicts as sets is
such a good idea that it was already added a few years ago.
>>> {1:1}.items() < {1:1, 2:2}.items()
True
> I don't even know what rich comparison operators on dictionaries do
> now, it isn't intuitive at all.
TypeError: unorderable types: dict() < dict()
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Terry Jan Reedy
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