[Python-3000] dict view operations (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 4 20:41:37 CEST 2007


On 9/4/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> Oh, and another thing: the items views can contain unhashable values

That, of course, could be fixed: if the key-value pairs would only hash by key (ignoring the value), they would remain hashable.

How would that help? The key/value pairs are ordinary tuples, so you still wouldn't be able to look them up in another set, nor would you be able to represent d.items() & d.items() as a regular set or frozenset instance.

What use case are you thinking of that this would address?

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