Re: probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what happens in case of a hash code clash? Then a list of (key, values) > is stored, and for a passed key, each key in that list is additionally > compared for being equal to the passed one. So another requirement of > hashable objecst is the co

Re: probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-09 Thread hawkmoon269
Very. Thanks much. :-) h -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-09 Thread hawkmoon269
That makes sense. Thanks. :-) h -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-09 Thread Stefan Behnel
hawkmoon269 schrieb: some other languages' hash table (Perl's, for instance). But FMU a dictionary's keys are *themselves* hashed so that a hash table exists that maps hashed key values to keys in the dictionary. I guess you're mixing up the terms "hashing" and "storing in a hash-table". When we

Re: probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-09 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
hawkmoon269 wrote: > I've read in several places that a Python dictionary is analagous to > some other languages' hash table (Perl's, for instance). But FMU a > dictionary's keys are *themselves* hashed so that a hash table exists > that maps hashed key values to keys in the dictionary. ISTM, th

probably weird or stupid newbie dictionary question

2005-02-09 Thread hawkmoon269
I've read in several places that a Python dictionary is analagous to some other languages' hash table (Perl's, for instance). But FMU a dictionary's keys are *themselves* hashed so that a hash table exists that maps hashed key values to keys in the dictionary. ISTM, then, that the analogy is at l