Alan G Isaac wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html >> """ >> Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies >> across Python implementations, and depends on the dictionary's history of >> insertions and deletions. >> """ > > Even this does not tell me that if I use a specified implementation > that my results can vary from run to run. That is, it still does > not communicate that rerunning an *unchanged* program with an > *unchanged* implementation can produce a change in results.
The last clause does tell me that. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
