[Python-Dev] Hash to longs, and Decimal

[Guido van Rossum]

Seems a fine idea. I don't have the time for a code review but I'll
leave that up to you all.

--Guido

On 9/17/07, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> In the Tracker Issue...
>
>   http://bugs.python.org/issue1772851
>
> ... Mark Dickinson came with a patch that alters in a very corner case
> how the hash is calculated to a long integer.
>
> This allows changes in Decimal that lead to a better hashing behaviour
> for big, big, really big numbers.
>
> The patch applies cleanly, all the tests pass ok (Mark also provided
> more tests for the hash function).
>
> I won't commit this right now; I'll delay the change for a couple of
> days in case somebody wants to take a look at it.
>
> Thanks!
>
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>
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