On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:11:53 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
>
>> On 11/19/2010 8:58 PM, Jin Yi wrote:
>>> so i came up with a diff method to compare 2 dicts.
> [...]
>> A PEP *and* some explanation of why you would want such an obscure piece
>>
right. i moved to a 2-value tuple return value basically to illustrate exactly
where each dict is providing a different value. it turns out to be much easier
to grok than the 3-value one since it's all there and lines up correctly with
the inputs...
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:00:16PM +, S
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:11:53 -0500, Steve Holden wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 8:58 PM, Jin Yi wrote:
>> so i came up with a diff method to compare 2 dicts.
[...]
> A PEP *and* some explanation of why you would want such an obscure piece
> of code built in to the dict object, yes.
You've never wanted t
i don't think this piece of code is obscure. i think the use case is there
when you know that dicta != dictb, but you need to know where they're different.
i wouldn't really care to have it on the dict since it's useful as an unbound
method anyway.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:11:53AM -0500, Ste
On 11/19/2010 8:58 PM, Jin Yi wrote:
> so i came up with a diff method to compare 2 dicts. i found it pretty
> useful so i thought i'd share it with everyone. you can see the doctest
> to check out suggested uses. since we can't modify built-ins, i
> demonstrated adding a diff method to OrderedD
