Changing Hash Values Across Versions

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:56:17 -0300, Phil Thompson  
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com> escribió:

> How stable should the implementation of, for example, a string's hash
> across different Python versions?

I cannot find any such guarantee in the documentation:
http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html

> Is it defined that hash("foo") will return the same value for Python  
> 2.5.1, 2.6.1 and 2.6.2?

I've tested and it does, all versions since Python 1.5 up to 3.0.1. But  
you should not rely on that.
What do you want to do exactly?

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Gabriel Genellina