[Python-Dev] Weird use of hash() -- will this work?

[Eric Raymond]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:01:04PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Yes, but...this hack has to work in a multithreaded environment,
> > so process ID isn't good enough.  And I don't want to keep a counter
> > around if I don't have to.
> 
> Sorry Eric, this just doesn't make sense.  Keeping a counter around in
> your module (protected by a semaphore) is obviously the right
> solution.  Why are you fighting it?

Actually, I'm not fighting it any more.  I changed my mind a few minutes
after shipping that response.
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