hashability question
Gonçalo Rodrigues
op73418 at mail.telepac.pt
Fri Oct 11 11:37:23 EDT 2002
Hi,
I have a class whose instances are timestamped at their moment of
creation. Their equality is naturally defined. I want to make them
hashable so the first obvious thing to do was
def __hash__(self):
return hash(self.__time)
where the __time attribute holds the timestamp. I don't know the first
thing about good criteria for hashing functions so I am asking the more
knowledgeable people, is this a good hashing function, or does it suffer
from some terrible handicap?
Thanks in advance,
Gonçalo Rodrigues
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