Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

> MappingView is a strange ABC: it should probably declare __contains__ as an 
> abstract method.
I think that was not done because it would not be very useful: MappingView 
seems to exist only as a base class for the other *View, which define 
__contains__.

> I don't see why it doesn't inherit from Set (which would avoid the need of 
> declaring __contains__,
> Set is a Container) whereas KeysView, ItemsView and ValuesView do inherit 
> from Set.
Not ValuesView, because you may have the same object as more than one value.

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