[Python-3000] docstring for dict.values (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jul 27 18:55:27 CEST 2007
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That's a totally different issue. The result of .items() is a set. But if it contains an unhashable object you can't convert it to a regular set.
--Guido
On 7/27/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
It seems the same applies to dict.items() ...
$ set(dict(a=[]).items()) >>> set(dict(a=[]).items()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
On 7/27/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On 7/27/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote: > > Why the docstrings for 'dict.values' says "a set-like object ..." ?? > > > > >>> list(dict(a=1,b=1,c=1).values()) > > [1, 1, 1] > > Oops, that's a bug! Thanks for reporting. -- Lisandro Dalcín
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