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Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries

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mauro wrote:

>  Dictionaries and sets share a few properties:

> - Dictionaries keys are unique as well as sets items
> - Dictionaries and sets are both unordered
> - Dictionaries and sets are both accessed by key

but sets have no values

> - Dictionaries and sets are both mutables

but frozensets also have the operations mentioned in the subject.

> So I wonder why operations such us intersection, union, difference,
> symmetric difference that are available for sets and are not available
> for dictionaries without going via key dictviews.

How would you define them? 

E. g.

{1, 2} & {2, 3} == {2}

but

{1:"a", 2:"b", 3:"c"} & {2:"b", 3:"e", 4:"f"} == ???

The most obvious result is probably the empty dict {2:"b"}, i. e.

a & b is defined as dict(a.items() & b.items())

Frankly, I don't do that a lot. So what's your use-case?

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intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries mauro <mauro@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 20:32 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Nick Timkovich <prometheus235@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 14:37 -0600
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-02-25 14:40 -0600
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-25 21:53 +0100
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-25 21:58 +0100
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-25 15:03 -0600
    Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-25 22:21 +0000
      Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Tim Chase <tim@thechases.com> - 2014-02-25 16:35 -0600
      Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-25 16:36 -0600
      Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 22:58 +0000
    Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-25 23:10 +0000
      Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-25 20:21 -0600
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-26 08:27 +1100
  Re:intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-25 16:35 -0500
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-25 22:54 +0100
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries mauro <mauro@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 22:02 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries mauro <mauro@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 22:03 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-25 16:10 -0600
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries mauro <mauro@gmail.com> - 2014-02-25 22:11 +0000
    Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-25 22:35 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-25 23:07 +0000
    Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-02-26 00:37 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-26 10:14 +1100
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-02-25 23:25 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-25 20:44 +0000
  Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-02-25 20:44 +0000
    Re: intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference for dictionaries Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 09:29 +1100

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