On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 9:25 AM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Mathew Elman wrote:] > >> Surely what you're looking for is some kind of typed hash table? > > > Maybe, maybe not. My impression is that the Typed hash table is a kluge > to get around this one issue. > For what it's worth, functools.lru_cache has a "typed" option that effectively adds the type()s of the arguments to the cache key. It was added by https://bugs.python.org/issue13227 . The only application of it in that patch was to re's compiled pattern cache, which needs to be typed to avoid spurious warnings or errors with -b or -bb, I suppose.
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