On Mar 5, 4:00 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> I want to hash values to keys. How do the alternatives compare? > > >>>>http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > >>> ... without extending the whole way to a full relational database? > > >> You didn't bother following the link and reading the advice, did you? If > >> you did, you haven't done a good job of following that advice. > > > Well, obviously there's someone who's interested in computers and > > programming that has a question. > > It may be obvious that he has a question. It's not the least > bit obvious what that question is. > > > Communication is not his forte, but effort, willingness, > > devotion, and dedication are. What should he do, and what > > should the others, who are gifted speakers? > > He should spend less time trying to generate "gifted speach" > and more time learning how to ask an understandable, meaningful > question. The link which you ignored explains how to do that. > > In your original post, it's not very clear what you mean by > "hash values to keys" means nor what alternatives you're asking > about. If you're trying to learn about hashing algorithms, then > google "hashing algorithms" and read the first half-dozen hits. > > The first two are Wikipedia articles which are both quite good > and are almost certainly available in your native lanauge. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! But they went to MARS > at around 1953!! > visi.com
Are you vegetarian? A little off topic. Anyway, if (a,b) is a key in dictionary d, can it guarantee that (b,a) is also in it, and maps to the same object? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
