I think this thread is approaching the recursion limit. Be careful not to blow the stack :)
Regards Antoine. On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:53:41 +0100 Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:11, Victor Stinner > <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote: > >> This seed is chosen randomly at runtime, but cannot > >> change once chosen. > > > > The hash is used to compare objects: if hash(obj1) != hash(obj2), > > objects are considered different. So two strings must have the same > > hash if their value is the same. > > > >> Salt could also be an appropriate term here, but since salt is > >> generally changed on a per-use basis (a single process may use many > >> different salts), seed is more correct, since this value is only > >> chosen once per process. > > > > We may use a different salt per dictionary. > > Can we do that? I was thinking of ways to not raise errors when we get > over a collision count, but instead somehow change the way the > dictionary behaves when we get over the collision count, but I > couldn't come up with something. Somehow adding a salt would be one > possibility. But I don't see how it's doable except for the > string-keys only case mentioned before. > > But I might just be lacking imagination. :-) > > //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
