> Sounds reasonable to me. Always returning 0 may slow things down, but it > will certainly not violate Python's "axiom" that elements evaluating > equal must have equal hashes. And we talk here about the default, i.e., > all specialised (fast) hash implementations will still be available. >
Actually, 'return 0' is the only correct general implementation of a hash function when you do not know the __eq__ function. Anything different from it (except 'return 1') runs the risk of contradicting an equality test. Nathann -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
