[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I just realized that of course the hash is not always going to be
> unique, so this wouldn't really work.  And it seems a hash table would
> still need to store the keys (as strings) so that string comparisons
> can be done when a collision occurs.

btw, Python's dictionary type *is* a highly-optimized implementation of 
a "traditional hash table".

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