Mutable objects which define __hash__ (was Re: Why are tuplesimmutable?)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I have a different suggestion: an identity dictionary.
>
> It ignores __hash__, __cmp__ and __eq__, and instead uses id() and is.

that's a rather common pattern, and you don't really need a special type
to handle it: just replace d[k] with d[id(k)].  if you really need to store the
keys in the dict, use d[id(k)] = k, v.

you can find some use of this pattern in Python's standard library.

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