Dave Angel wrote: > On 01/18/2013 07:06 AM, Peter Otten wrote: >> 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 ;) >> > > Beg to differ. Nothing wrong with getting the same hash on objects that > compare different. It's called a hash collision, and is quite common, > especially in large collections.
Of course. > The problem is the converse of this, where the objects compare equal, > but they have different hashes. And that I read because my expectations won over the actual text. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
