On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:59:47 -0700, Mark wrote: >> > Or maybe not. If OrderedDicts are sequences as well as mappings, then we >> > should be able to sort them. And that seems a bit much even for me.
>> One thing that I've just noticed is that you can use <, <=, >=, and > >> with sets: >> It seems a bit inconsistent that with sets you always get False when >> using an ordering operator but with an ordered dict you get an >> exception? > > Ooops---disregard the above---I forgot that these do subset and > superset comparisions! Which is an argument for dictionaries (ordered or not) doing likewise, except that the comparison would be subfunction rather than subset, i.e. d1<d2 = all(k in d2 and d2[k] == d1[k] for k in d1). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
