On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> If you want to talk about ways to use dicts, please start a different >> thread for it. As has been pointed out several times now, it is >> off-topic for this thread, which is about hash *functions*. > > A hash that can hash objects is not a hash function at all.
Please explain what you think a hash function is, then. Per Wikipedia, "A hash function is any algorithm or subroutine that maps large data sets to smaller data sets, called keys." > Are you miss-leading the power of true OOP ? I have no idea what you are suggesting. I was not talking about OOP at all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list