Python 2.2b1 hashable dictionary bug?
Rainer Deyke
root at rainerdeyke.com
Mon Oct 29 00:53:33 EST 2001
"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1004326288.22670.python-list at python.org...
> > >>> class D(dictionary): pass
> > ...
> > >>> d = {}
> > >>> d2 = D()
> > >>> d[d2] = "dictionary used as key"
> > >>>
>
> You can stop there -- objects of builtin mutable types should never be
> usable as dict keys.
What about this:
class dictionary_with_identity_compare(dictionary):
__eq__ = object.__eq__
__ne__ = object.__ne__
__lt__ = object.__lt__
__gt__ = object.__gt__
__le__ = object.__le__
__ge__ = object.__ge__
__hash__ = object.__hash__
d = {dictionary_with_identity_compare() : None}
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