[Tutor] dictionaries are same but returning false

[shubham goyal]

Thank you Peter.
Silly mistakes 😀

On Jul 5, 2017 5:10 PM, "Peter Otten" <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> shubham goyal wrote:
>
> > null=None
> > x={'_udp_options': None, '_icmp_options': None, 'attribute_map':
> > {'icmp_options': 'icmpOptions', 'protocol': 'protocol', 'source':
> > {'source',
> > 'tcp_options': 'tcpOptions', 'is_stateless': 'isStateless',
> 'udp_options':
> > 'udpOptions'}, '_is_stateless': False, 'swagger_types': {'icmp_options':
> > 'IcmpOptions', 'protocol': 'str', 'source': 'str', 'tcp_options':
> > 'TcpOptions', 'is_stateless': 'bool', 'udp_options': 'UdpOptions'},
> > '_protocol': '6', '_source': '0.0.4.0/24', '_tcp_options': {
> >   "destination_port_range": {
> >     "max": "22",
> >     "min": "22"
> >   },
> >   "source_port_range": null
> > }}
> >
> > y={'_udp_options': None, '_icmp_options': None, 'attribute_map':
> > {'icmp_options': 'icmpOptions', 'protocol': 'protocol', 'source':
> > {'source',
> > 'tcp_options': 'tcpOptions', 'is_stateless': 'isStateless',
> 'udp_options':
> > 'udpOptions'}, '_is_stateless': False, 'swagger_types': {'icmp_options':
> > 'IcmpOptions', 'protocol': 'str', 'source': 'str', 'tcp_options':
> > 'TcpOptions', 'is_stateless': 'bool', 'udp_options': 'UdpOptions'},
> > '_protocol': '6', '_source': '0.0.4.0/24', '_tcp_options': {
> >   "destination_port_range": {
> >     "max": 22,
> >     "min": 22
> >   },
> >   "source_port_range": null
> > }}
> > if x==y:
> >     print "true"
> > else:
> >     print "false"
> >
> >
> > These dictionaries are same exactly. but its returning false. i don't
> > understand
> > what to do?
>
> Let's narrow down the problem, with the help of the interactive
> interpreter:
>
> >>> changed = [k for k in x if x[k] != y[k]]
> >>> changed
> ['_tcp_options']
> >>> k, = changed
>
> A closer look:
>
> >>> x[k]
> {'source_port_range': None, 'destination_port_range': {'max': '22', 'min':
> '22'}}
> >>> y[k]
> {'source_port_range': None, 'destination_port_range': {'max': 22, 'min':
> 22}}
>
> So x uses strings for min/max while y uses integers, and those do not
> compare equal in Python:
>
> >>> 22 == "22"
> False
>
> Once you fix this
>
> >>> x[k]["destination_port_range"]["max"] = 22
> >>> x[k]["destination_port_range"]["min"] = 22
>
> you get the expected result:
>
> >>> x == y
> True
>
>
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