(objects as) mutable dictionary keys
Just
just at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 17 07:52:47 EST 2005
In article <csgb3d$hjn$1 at swifty.westend.com>,
Peter Maas <peter at somewhere.com> wrote:
> Antoon Pardon schrieb:
> > Dictionary lookup with mutable types like lists is a source of
> > unpleasant surprises for the programmer and therefore impossible in
> > Python.
> >
> >
> > It is not impossible in Python.
Is too.
> > It may be discouraged but it is not
> > impossible since I have already done so.
>
> Wouldn't this raise a TypeError? Or did you wrap them with an object?
He created a list subclass that redefines __hash__, so he cheated :).
Just
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