Comparing Dictionaries for Equal Key-Value Pairs

In Python, comparing dictionaries to check if key-value pairs are equal is a common task. One approach is to iterate over the dictionaries and compare each pair using the zip and iteritems methods. However, there are alternative methods that offer better code elegance.

One such method is to use a dictionary comprehension to create a new dictionary containing only the shared key-value pairs. The code would look like:

shared_items = {k: x[k] for k in x if k in y and x[k] == y[k]}
print(len(shared_items))

This method is concise and efficient, as it loops over the keys in both dictionaries and checks if they have the same value. It then creates a new dictionary with the shared pairs and counts the number of shared items.