Annoying behaviour of the != operator

[David M. Cooke]

Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> writes:

> greg wrote:
>> David M. Cooke wrote:
>>
>>>>To solve that, I would suggest a fourth category of "arbitrary
>>>>ordering", but that's probably Py3k material.
>>>
>>>We've got that: use hash().
>>>[1+2j, 3+4j].sort(key=hash)
>> What about objects that are not hashable?
>> The purpose of arbitrary ordering would be to provide
>> an ordering for all objects, whatever they might be.
>
> How about id(), then?
>
> And so the circle is completed...

Or something like

def uniquish_id(o):
    try:
        return hash(o)
    except TypeError:
        return id(o)

hash() should be the same across interpreter invocations, whereas id()
won't.

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