On 16/03/22 6:58 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
And Python's own integers hash to themselves,
> which isn't what I'd call "widely distributed", but which > works well in practice.
Not exactly, they seem to be limited to 60 bits: >>> hex(hash(0xfffffffffffffff)) '0xfffffffffffffff' >>> hex(hash(0x1fffffffffffffff)) '0x0' And up to that limit they're as widely distributed as you can get -- each integer hashes to a unique value! But keep in mind that the hash value itself is not directly used to locate a dict slot -- there is extra scrambling that goes on in the dict code. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
