From 6472ece5a0fe82809d3aa0ffb281796fcd252d76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Stanley Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 06:01:41 -0400 Subject: bpo-37585: Add clarification regarding comparing dict.values() (GH-14954) --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 0a565c3..c78f4ba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -4357,6 +4357,14 @@ pairs within braces, for example: ``{'jack': 4098, 'sjoerd': 4127}`` or ``{4098: Return a new view of the dictionary's values. See the :ref:`documentation of view objects `. + An equality comparison between one ``dict.values()`` view and another + will always return ``False``. This also applies when comparing + ``dict.values()`` to itself:: + + >>> d = {'a': 1} + >>> d.values() == d.values() + False + Dictionaries compare equal if and only if they have the same ``(key, value)`` pairs. Order comparisons ('<', '<=', '>=', '>') raise :exc:`TypeError`. -- cgit v0.12