Op 2011-12-02 6:48, 88888 Dihedral schreef: > A hash stores (k,v) pairs specified in the run time with auto memory > management build in is not a simple hash function to produce data > signatures only clearly in my post. > > What I said a hash which is lifted as a basic type in python is > called a dictionary in python. > > It is called a map in c++'s generics library.
Not exactly: a C++ std::map uses a tree structure (which is why it keeps the keys sorted). C++ STL also has std::hash_map which, as the name implies, does use a hash table implementation. -- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
