Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > >> That brings me to another question, is there any valid test case where >> key1 != key2 and hash(key1) == hash(key2) ? Or is it some kind of design >> flaw ? > > I don't think there is a use case for such a behaviour other than annoying > your collegues ;) >
It's fairly common. The set of possible keys can be much larger (possibly infinite) than the set of possible hash values (restricted to 32-bit or 64-bit integer values, afaict). -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
