A hash that can hash objects is not a trivial hash function On Monday, December 5, 2011 1:41:14 AM UTC+8, Ian wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:39 AM, 88888 Dihedral > <dihedr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your comments. Are we gonna talk about the way to implement a > > hash > > table or the use of a hash table in programming? > > Implementing a hash table is not very relevant on a list about Python, > which already has them built into the language; and any pure Python > implementation would be uselessly slow. > > If you want to talk about ways to use dicts, please start a different > thread for it. As has been pointed out several times now, it is > off-topic for this thread, which is about hash *functions*.
A hash that can hash objects is not a hash function at all. Are you miss-leading the power of true OOP ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list