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

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Tim Chase wrote:

> On 2014-02-25 14:40, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> What's the correct result of evaluating this expression?
>> 
>> {'A': 1} | {'A': 2}
>> 
>> I can see (at least) two possible "correct" answers.
> 
> I would propose at least four:
> 
>   {'A': 1}   # choose the LHS
>   {'A': 2}   # choose the RHS
>   {'A': (1,2)} # a resulting pair of both
>   set(['A']) # you did set-ops, so you get a set
> 
> If dicts were to support set ops, 

They do in 2.7 and 3.x.

> the last one would be my preferred
> result.
> 
> I just had to perform set operations on a pair of dicts earlier this
> week, shrugged, and did things the manual/explicit way:
> 
>   a_dict = dict(...)
>   b_dict = dict(...)
>   a_set = set(a_dict)
>   b_set = set(b_dict)
>   added_keys = b_set - a_set
>   removed_keys = a_set - b_set
>   same_keys = a_set & b_set
>   diff_keys = a_set ^ b_set
>   all_keys = a_set | b_set

>>> a = dict.fromkeys("ab")
>>> b = dict.fromkeys("bc")
>>> a.viewkeys() - b.viewkeys()
set(['a'])
>>> a.viewkeys() & b.viewkeys()
set(['b'])
>>> a.viewkeys() ^ b.viewkeys()
set(['a', 'c'])
>>> a.viewkeys() | b.viewkeys()
set(['a', 'c', 'b'])

For 3.x replace viewkeys() with keys().

> It would save some space if I didn't have to duplicate all the keys
> into sets (on the order of 10-100k small strings), instead being able
> to directly perform the set-ops on the dicts.  But otherwise, it was
> pretty readable & straight-forward.
> 
> -tkc

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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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