Any built-in ishashable method ?
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Sat Jan 19 02:53:22 EST 2013
Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> writes:
>
>> Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>>
>>> That brings me to another question, is there any valid test case where
>>> key1 != key2 and hash(key1) == hash(key2) ? Or is it some kind of design
>>> flaw ?
>>
>> I don't think there is a use case for such a behaviour other than
>> annoying your collegues ;)
>>
>
> It's fairly common. The set of possible keys can be much larger
> (possibly infinite) than the set of possible hash values (restricted to
> 32-bit or 64-bit integer values, afaict).
Sorry, I misread the quoted text. If you replace
key1 != key2 and hash(key1) == hash(key2)
in Jean-Michel's question with
key1 == key2 and hash(key1) != hash(key2)
my reply should start to make sense...
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