jinja2 compare not working as expected | Home Assistant | Page 1

I have a simplified a template that I'm building down to a close to bare minimum:

sensor:
   - name: Test Notices
     unique_id: eef5e218-4506-4b49-aba0-134c9e0fc5ff
     state: 1
     attributes:
       notices: >
         {{ {'alert': 'Snowfall warning', 'icon': 'mdi:alert-octogon'} }}

Using the template development tool the following snippet does not work as expected:

{% if state_attr('sensor.test_notices', 'notices').icon == 'mdi:alert-octagon' %}
  Yeah!!
{% else %}
  Huh?? >{{ state_attr('sensor.test_notices', 'notices').icon }}<
{% endif %}

I would have thought the compare would succeed. The code takes the else path and prints Huh?? >mdi:alert-octogon<.

Thanks for any insight!

#jinja2 compare not working as expected