hash defaulting to id and id (was: [Python-Dev] sizeof(long) != sizeof(void*))

[Samuele Pedroni]

At 22:06 05.08.2003 +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
>At 21:38 05.08.2003 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>On Win64, a number of tests fail as they expect that a Python integer
>>can represent a platform pointer. For example, test_array expects that
>>buffer_info returns an integer. Likewise, test_descr expects that id()
>>and hash() return the same value by default.
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>hash() returning the same value as id() as fallback default

i.e.

object.__hash__(x) == id(x)


>is not a reasonable assumption. I'm about to fix the long standing broken 
>id in Jython and keeping the default hash() equal to id() is a too 
>expensive option.
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>I even think that in the long run id() should be depracated in favor of 
>offering identity mappings and weak identity mappings. id() is not 
>reasonably implementable across the range of GC implementations.
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>regards.
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