dictionary comparison

[Remco Gerlich]

Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote in comp.lang.python:
> pzs at dcs.gla.ac.uk wrote:
> > 
> > What's the best way of comparing a dictionary with another (possibly
> > itself) without doing each comparison twice as
> > 
> > for key1 in dict1.keys():
> >         for key2 in dict2.keys():
> 
> Far from being the best way, one obvious way would be to
> loop over the concatenated keys-sequence of both dicts:
> 
> for key in dict1.keys()+dict2.keys():
>   try:
>     if dict1[key] != < > == ... dict2[key]:
>       do something
>   except KeyError:
>     ...

Or use dict1 == dict2 :)

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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
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