On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:49:44 +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote: >> This ought to be a bug; objects that compare equal and are hashable >> must have the same hash code. > > It's not a bug. Changing the default encoding is not really supported, > let alone changing it to anything but latin-1, precisely for the reasons > you discuss. > > If you do change the default encoding, Python *will* break. This has > been discussed many times, but some people still think they know better.
That's specific to CPython though, isn't it? Other implementations may, or may not, cope with it better? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
