Why is lambda allowed as a key in a dict?

[Craig Allen]

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.