[Python-3000] docstring for dict.values

[Guido van Rossum]

That's a totally different issue. The result of .items() is a set. But
if it contains an unhashable object you can't convert it to a regular
set.

--Guido

On 7/27/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems the same applies to dict.items() ...
>
> $ set(dict(a=[]).items())
> >>> set(dict(a=[]).items())
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
>
>
> On 7/27/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > On 7/27/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Why the docstrings for 'dict.values' says "a set-like object ..." ??
> > >
> > > >>> list(dict(a=1,b=1,c=1).values())
> > > [1, 1, 1]
> >
> > Oops, that's a bug! Thanks for reporting.
>
> --
> Lisandro Dalcín
>


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