Steve White writes:
> ...
> A little documentation would have saved me personally days of work.
> It would be helpful to know:
> * under what conditions can one expect a "perfect hash", that is,
> one where __eq__() will never be called?
Never expect it: keys with different hash values may end
Hi Dieter,
I'm sure that 99% of all use of 'dict' in Python is exactly this. The
vast majority of my own Python code is such, and that is as it should
be.
Here I have an application where I can do something really cool and
useful, by keying on identity. The built-in Python structures are
pretty
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From: Steve White
Date: Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: keying by identity in dict and set
To: Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>
Hi Peter,
Thanks, that does seem to indicate something.
(But there was no need to define a class... you're basically sa
