Re: Comparing Dictionaries

Kenneth Love <klove@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In other words, I consider these two dictionaries to be equivalent:

{ 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever', 'mouse' : 'mickey' }
{ 'mouse' : 'mickey', 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever' }

while these two are not:

{ 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever', 'mouse' : 'mickey' }
{ 'dog' : 'bone', 'cat' : 'fever', 'mouse' : 'michael' }

Any suggestions on how to compare these via some assert statement?

Dictionaries already know how to compare themselves to each other.

>>> {'dog': 'bone', 'cat': 'fever', 'mouse': 'mickey'} == {'mouse': 'mickey', 'dog': 'bone', 'cat': 'fever'}
True
>>> {'dog': 'bone', 'cat': 'fever', 'mouse': 'mickey'} == {'mouse': 'michael', 'dog': 'bone', 'cat': 'fever'}
False

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