On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Persistence layers like ZODB and cross interpreter communication > channels used by multiprocessing may (!) rely on the fact that the hash > of a string is fixed.
ZODB does not rely on a fixed hash function for strings; for any application to rely on a stable hash would cause problems when updating Python versions. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." --Samuel Langhorne Clemens _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com