Removed stray backslash (a typo -- my fault).
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(key, value) lists compare equal.\footnote{The implementation computes
this efficiently, without constructing lists or sorting.}
Outcomes other than equality are resolved consistently, but are not
-otherwise defined.\footnote{Earlier versions of Python used\
+otherwise defined.\footnote{Earlier versions of Python used
lexicographic comparison of the sorted (key, value) lists, but this
was very expensive for the common case of comparing for equality. An
even earlier version of Python compared dictionaries by identity only,