Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

Because with hash() == id() == address of the PyObject, the hash is
always a multiple of 4 or 8 (I think it's 8), so (hash() %
dict_or_set_table_size) is non-uniformly distributed in most cases.

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