Hi, people. I noticed today that dictionaries seem to support `==' comparison. (Retrospectively, it is strange that I never needed it before! :-) Yet, before relying on this, I seeked for confirmation in the Python manuals, and did not succeed in finding it. In particular:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/typesmapping.html is silent on the subject. As for: http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/comparisons.html it only says "Comparison operations are supported by all objects", which is a little vague, and no promise that comparisons are meaningful (for example, one might wonder what would exactly mean the comparison of open files). The node even says: "Two more operations with the same syntactic priority, "in" and "not in", are supported only by sequence types (below).", which suggests that the information might not be fully up-to-date, at least regarding dictionaries. Would someone know where I could find a confirmation that comparing dictionaries with `==' has the meaning one would expect (even this is debatable!), that is, same set of keys, and for each key, same values? -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
