[Python-ideas] Fwd: Why do equality tests between OrderedDict keys/values views behave not as expected?

[Franklin? Lee]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> On 18.12.2015 20:58, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
>>
>> If you're thinking we could define what multisets should do, despite not
>> having a standard multiset type or an ABC for them, and apply that to values
>> views, the next question is how to do that in better than quadratic time for
>> non-hashable values. (And you can't assume ordering here, either.) Would
>> having a values view hang for 30 seconds and then come back with the answer
>> you intuitively wanted instead of giving the wrong answer in 20 millis be an
>> improvement? (Either way, you're going to learn the same lesson: don't
>> compare values views. I'd rather learn that in 20 millis.)
>
>
> I like the multiset/bag idea.
>
> Python calls them Counter, right?
>
>
> Best,
> Sven

Counter would require hashable values. Any efficient multibag concept,
in fact, would. Quadratic multibag comparisons would run into trouble
with custom equality.

# Pretending that kwargs is ordered.
a0 = dict(x=0, y=1)
a1 = a0
b0 = OrderedDict(x=0, y=1)
b1 = OrderedDict(y=1, x=0)

d0 = {'foo': a0, 'bar': b0}
d1 = {'foo': b1, 'bar': a1}

If we compare a0 == a1 and b0 == b1, then it fails. If we compare a0
== b1 and b0 == a1, then it passes. The order of comparisons matter.

I see two options:
- comparison is explicitly NotImplemented. Any code that used it
should've used `is`.
- comparison respects keys.


OrderedDict values() comparison makes some sense, but its options would be
- comparison is sequential.
- comparison respects keys.