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When I create 2 different dicts with the same literal, their dict.values() are equal in python2 but not equal in python3.
Here is an example in python2:
 $ python2
 Python 2.7.16 (default, Mar 4 2019, 09:02:22)
 [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-10001145.5)] on darwin
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> a = {'hello': 'world'}
 >>> b = {'hello': 'world'}
 >>> a.values() == b.values()
 True
 >>> a.keys() == b.keys()
 True
However, the dict.values() are not equal in python3:
 $ python3
 Python 3.7.2 (default, Feb 12 2019, 08:16:38)
 [Clang 10.0.0 (clang-10001145.5)] on darwin
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> a = {'hello': 'world'}
 >>> b = {'hello': 'world'}
 >>> a.values() == b.values()
 False
 >>> a.keys() == b.keys()
 True
Is this a bug? Or is this behavior specified somewhere in the documentation? Thanks.
Note: it's inspired by this StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56403613/questions-about-python-dictionary-equality 

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dictionary-view-objects
> Keys views are set-like since their entries are unique and hashable. If all values are hashable, so that (key, value) pairs are unique and hashable, then the items view is also set-like. (Values views are not treated as set-like since the entries are generally not unique.) For set-like views, all of the operations defined for the abstract base class collections.abc.Set are available (for example, ==, <, or ^).
In Python 2 keys() and values() return a list where __eq__ is implemented. In Python 3 view objects are returned. This can be seen in Python 2 also using viewkeys and viewvalues where viewvalues() is False. So this is not a bug but I am not sure if docs can be improved to clarify this further.
$ python2
Python 2.7.14 (default, Mar 12 2018, 13:54:56)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = {'a': 1}
>>> b = {'a': 1}
>>> a.viewkeys() == b.viewkeys()
True
>>> a.viewvalues() == b.viewvalues()
False
>>> a.values() == b.values()
True

See also issue12445.

Hi Karthikeyan and Serhiy,
Thank you for the explanation. I'll check the references you gave me.