Skip to content

Navigation Menu

Sign in
Appearance settings

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

Provide feedback

We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Appearance settings

gh-96408: Document difference between set-like view and sets. #96439

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Aug 31, 2022
Merged
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion 6 Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -4694,7 +4694,9 @@ values are hashable, so that ``(key, value)`` pairs are unique and hashable,
then the items view is also set-like. (Values views are not treated as set-like
since the entries are generally not unique.) For set-like views, all of the
operations defined for the abstract base class :class:`collections.abc.Set` are
available (for example, ``==``, ``<``, or ``^``).
available (for example, ``==``, ``<``, or ``^``). While using set operators,
set-like views accept any iterable as the other operand, unlike sets which only
accept sets as the input.

An example of dictionary view usage::

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4726,6 +4728,8 @@ An example of dictionary view usage::
{'bacon'}
>>> keys ^ {'sausage', 'juice'}
{'juice', 'sausage', 'bacon', 'spam'}
>>> keys | ['juice', 'juice', 'juice']
{'juice', 'sausage', 'bacon', 'spam', 'eggs'}

>>> # get back a read-only proxy for the original dictionary
>>> values.mapping
Expand Down
Morty Proxy This is a proxified and sanitized view of the page, visit original site.