Why does the **kwargs mapping compare equal with a differently ordered OrderedDict?

Question

According to PEP 468:

Starting in version 3.6 Python will preserve the order of keyword arguments as passed to a function. To accomplish this the coll

Answer 1

Just to add, if you do want to make this check (without relying on an implementation detail (which even then, won't be in python 3.7)), just do

from collections import OrderedDict
>>> data = OrderedDict(zip('xy', 'xy'))
>>> def foo(**kwargs):
...     return OrderedDict(kwargs) == data

since this is guaranteed to be True.