On Sep 19, 9:58 pm, Karthik Gurusamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since we know hashing is used, all that is needed is, a well-defined > way to construct a hash out of a mutable. "Given a sequence, how to > get a hash" is the problem. If later the given sequence is different, > that's not the dict's problem. > Oh it is possible to construct a hash from a mutable. What is difficult is creating the same hash when the mutable mutates. Or indeed working out what it means when a hash key mutates and you access the dictionary. Ignoring this gives the programmer a big problem hence the limitation.
I don't think you have a better solution. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
