New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>:
The existing API for the builtin hash() function is inconvenient. When implementing structure that use a hash value, you never want a negative number. Running abs(hash(x)) works but is awkward, slower, and loses one bit of entropy. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 349333 nosy: rhettinger, tim.peters priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Make hash() return a non-negative number type: enhancement versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37807> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
