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I don't think it's confusing or even on the level of "semantics": looping over dict keys/elements is a common pattern and the 3.7 change makes that a little mor

I don't think it's confusing or even on the level of "semantics": looping over dict keys/elements is a common pattern and the 3.7 change makes that a little more predictable and consistent. Two dicts with same elements not being equal would be surprising and confusing.

ali_m 3y ago
If we're treating them as ordered containers then it really ought to be surprising and confusing that two dicts with the same elements in a different order are considered equal. Other ordered containers such as lists or tuples don't behave this way. I'd use an `OrderedDict` in situations where I have a mapping where the order of elements is significant. `OrderedDict` signals intent much more clearly, and its `__eq__` method cares about order.