[issue8404] Set operations don't work for dictionary views

[A.M. Kuchling]

A.M. Kuchling <lists at amk.ca> added the comment:

(commenting on a closed bug, because I'm not sure it should be re-opened)

While coming up with examples, I found a weird inconsistency.  Was it intentional for viewkeys() and viewitems() to support set operations, but not viewvalues()? 

>>> d1 = dict((i*10, chr(65+i)) for i in range(26))
>>> d2 = dict((i**.5, i) for i in range(1000))
>>> d1.viewkeys() | set('abc')
set([0, 130, 10, 140, 20, 150, 30, 160, 40, 170, 50, 180, 60, 190, 70, 200, 80, 210, 90, 220, 'a', 'c', 'b', 100, 230, 110, 240, 120, 250])
>>> d1.viewitems() | set('abc')
set([(70, 'H'), (0, 'A'), ....)
>>> d1.viewvalues() | set('abc')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'dict_values' and 'set' 
>>> d1.viewvalues() | d2.viewvalues()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'dict_values' and 'dict_values'

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