On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:50 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > [snip] > Is this strictly true? I thought that the hash value, an integer, is > moduloed (Is that how you spell it? Looks weird!) with the number of > array elements to give an index into the array, so different hashes > could give the same index, and objects with different hashes could be > stored in the same 'bucket'.
There can always be hash collisions between different objects, but the assumption is that two identical objects will _always_ "collide". Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
