On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:45:57 +0100 mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: > > What an implementation looks like: > > > > http://pastebin.com/9ydETTag > > > > some stuff to be filled in, but this is all that is really required. > > I think this statement (and the patch) is wrong. You also need to change > the byte string hashing, at least for 2.x. This I consider the biggest > flaw in that approach - other people may have written string-like objects > which continue to compare equal to a string but now hash different.
They're unlikely to have rewritten the hash algorithm by hand - especially given the caveats wrt. differences between Python integers and C integers. Rather, they would have returned the hash() of the equivalent str or unicode object. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
