On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:52 PM Dominik Vilsmeier
<dominik.vilsme...@gmx.de> 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/python-...@python.org/thread/R2MPDTTMJXAF54SICFSAWPPCCEWAJ7WF/#K3SYX4DER3WAOWGQ4SPKCKXSXLXTIVAQ

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Inada Naoki  <songofaca...@gmail.com>
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