Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

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On Mar 11, 3:40 pm, Craig Allen <callen... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 10, 1:39 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Craig Allen <callen... at gmail.com> writes:
> > > it raises an interesting question about why doesn't it.  I can think
> > > of practical answers to that, obviously, but in principle, if a
> > > function compiles to exactly the same byte code, you obviously do not
> > > need two copies of it, and like strings shouldn't an identical
> > > function have the same id?
>
> > Identical strings don't necessarily have the same id:
>
> >     >>> a = "a"*1000
> >     >>> b = "a"*1000
> >     >>> id(a),id(b)
> >     (137143648, 137144680)
> >     >>> a==b
> >     True
>
> interesting, I thought they were supposed to.

Are you joking? two objects == two ids. if not i would dump Python
forever!

Do you think Vector(0,0,0) and Vector(0,0,0) would have the same id?