On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, but I'm pretty sure that's been true for a LONG time. The hashes >> > for small integers have been themselves for as long as I can remember. >> > But the behaviour of the dictionary, when fed such keys, is what's >> > changed. >> >> I'm not disputing either of those facts. I'm pointing out that the >> apparently arbitrary order of a mapping's keys becomes obvious when you >> look at the hashes of those keys. >> > > It looks like the relationship no longer holds at around keys = > list(range(250, 260)) > > But i == hash(i) holds for the first million values at least. > I could've been more clear. int dict keys stop being stored-in-order at near 256. But i == hash(i) holds for the first million values, and probably more. This suggests to me that there's something more than i == hash(i) going on inside dict's - but it doesn't much matter what it is for my purposes. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list