From c1ff611015ac51d88e9d16230c6de8bde9a298e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 19:54:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-77753: Add example for values that compare equal in stdtypes (GH-98497) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra (cherry picked from commit 0ca6a4d64086055a8a3aa4b4c024fc080de148ab) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 14d2a27a87bac9..68b333acd8f007 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)