From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:54:27 +0000 (-0700) Subject: gh-77753: Add example for values that compare equal in stdtypes (#98497) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.0a2~240 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ca6a4d64086055a8a3aa4b4c024fc080de148ab;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-77753: Add example for values that compare equal in stdtypes (#98497) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 2952c50787ad..6701d794b511 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -4370,11 +4370,9 @@ type, the :dfn:`dictionary`. (For other containers see the built-in A dictionary's keys are *almost* arbitrary values. Values that are not :term:`hashable`, that is, values containing lists, dictionaries or other mutable types (that are compared by value rather than by object identity) may -not be used as keys. Numeric types used for keys obey the normal rules for -numeric comparison: if two numbers compare equal (such as ``1`` and ``1.0``) -then they can be used interchangeably to index the same dictionary entry. (Note -however, that since computers store floating-point numbers as approximations it -is usually unwise to use them as dictionary keys.) +not be used as keys. +Values that compare equal (such as ``1``, ``1.0``, and ``True``) +can be used interchangeably to index the same dictionary entry. .. class:: dict(**kwargs) dict(mapping, **kwargs)