Armin Rigo schrieb: > Maybe the user should just be able to return any integer value from a > custom __hash__() without having to worry about not exceeding > sys.maxint. > > After all the returned value has no real meaning. If a long is returned > we could take its hash again, and use that number internally.
Nick Coghlan already suggested that, when __hash__ returns a long int, the tp_hash of long int should be used to compute the true hash value. Could you see any problems with that approach? If not, and if I don't hear other objections, I'd like to go ahead and fix it that way. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
