On Jan 31, 4:39 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 7:02 pm, FireNWater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you for the explanation. . . I think I now have a (foggy) > > understanding of hash tables. It seems to be a way to create order
> > The 'order' that your speaking of is not implemented by the hash > *table*, per se, but rather by the hash function, which returns an > integer (the hash code). > Dustan, Yes, I think I understand it now. . . the order I was referring to is provided "behind the scenes" by the return values of the hash function. Thanks to everyone with their explanations!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list