On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:52 PM Dominik Vilsmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely that must be a relic from pre-3.7 days where dicts were unordered > and hence order-based comparison wouldn't be possible (though PEP 3106 > describes an O(n*m) algorithm). However the current behavior is > unfortunate because it might trick users into believing that this is a > meaningful comparison between distinct objects (given that it works with > `dict.keys` and `dict.items`) when it isn't. > > So why not make dict_values a Sequence, providing __getitem__ and > additionally order-based __eq__ comparison?
It was rejected in this thread. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/R2MPDTTMJXAF54SICFSAWPPCCEWAJ7WF/#K3SYX4DER3WAOWGQ4SPKCKXSXLXTIVAQ -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UTIVOHIB24BZETOGXMJJWRMGOM72UEHB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
