[issue2292] Missing *-unpacking generalizations

Alexander Belopolsky report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 7 22:15:11 CEST 2008


Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Thomas Wouters <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> .. The order of evaluation is the same, the
>  BUILD_SET implementation just hashes the evaluated items in a different
>  order. You can't really rely on that particular order as it's tied
>  closely to the stack representation CPython uses.

I agree and that's why I said the difference in behavior is "subtle"
and my example is "contrived."   However, I believe Raymond expressed
a similar concern in msg63065.

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