On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> A dictionary would (then) be a SET of these. (Voila! things have already >> gotten simplified.) >> > > Really? So {a:1, a:2} would be a dict of length 2? > Eventually, I also think this will seque and integrate nicely into Mark >> Shannon's "shared-key dict" proposal (PEP 412). >> >> I just noticed something in Guido's example. Something gives me a strange feeling that using a variable as a key doesn't smell right. Presumably Python just hashes the variable's id, or uses the id itself as the key, but I wonder if anyone's noticed any problems with this, and whether the hash collision problems could be solved by removing this?? Does anyone even use this functionality -- of a *variable* (not a string) as a dict key? mark
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