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Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered?

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/stdtypes.html#dict-views
>> """If keys, values and items views are iterated over with no
>> intervening modifications to the dictionary, the order of items will
>> directly correspond."""
>> So if iterating over d.keys() and then d.values() with no mutations is
>> guaranteed to give the same order, then so is iterating over d.keys(),
>> then d.keys(), then d.values(),
>
> Not so! So long as the iteration of values() matched the *second* iteration
> of keys(), it would be allowed. There's nothing which says that the first
> iteration of keys() has to match the second.

I disagree. Between the first iteration of keys() and the iteration of
values(), there were no modifications to the dictionary - another
iteration over keys() isn't a modification - ergo the guarantee ought
to hold. If you replace that inner iteration with the opening of a
file, or the division of a float by a Decimal, or the definition of a
new class, I'm sure everyone would agree that the guarantee still
holds, because they don't change the dict; so why should iterating
over keys() be any different?

ChrisA

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          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-09-19 18:02 -0400
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      Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:15 +1000
        Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 15:40 +1000
          Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 20:59 +1000
            Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 21:19 +1000
              Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 21:58 +1000
                Re: Is there a canonical way to check whether an iterable is ordered? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 22:06 +1000
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