Is there any reference for this strange behaviour on Python 2:
set() dict().viewkeys()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
TypeError: can only compare to a set
dict().viewkeys() set()
False
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On 4/28/2014 2:22 AM, Joshua Landau wrote:
Is there any reference for this strange behaviour on Python 2:
set() dict().viewkeys()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in module
TypeError: can only compare to a set
dict().viewkeys() set()
Terry Reedy wrote:
The left operand determines the result. The manual specifies that and
do not have to be consistent. But I suspect that when 3.x dict.keys()
was backported to 2.7.0, no one thought to update set, whereas the
backported key view code already had the comparison.
The
