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  Re: Set Operations on Dicts Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-02-09 10:32 +1100

#102696 — Re: Set Operations on Dicts

Marco Kaulea <marco.kaulea@gmail.com> writes:

> In one talk (I think it was [1]) it was described that sets are basically
> dicts without the values.

It seems an unhelpful thing to say about ‘set’, I disagree with that
characterisation.

> Therefor it should be easy to apply set operations on dicts

Yes, that's one reason I disagree; it leads to incorrect inferences like
this :-)

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