hash values and equality

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Sat May 21 18:55:56 EDT 2011


On 5/19/2011 11:33 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> For that reason, it is generally useful to use immutable types like
> integers, floats, strings and tuples thereof as keys. Since you can't change
> them, you basically have the guarantee that they hash the same.

    Right.  It's something of a lack that Python doesn't
have user-defined immutable objects.

				John Nagle




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