New to Python: Do we have the concept of Hash in Python?

[Steve Holden]

Ten wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 13:07, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> 
>>>>>>>"A.M" <alanalan at newsgroup.nospam> (AM) wrote:
>>>
>>>AM> This is my 1st day that I am seriously diving into Python and I have
>>>AM> to finish this application by the end of today.
>>
>>Are you serious?
>>--
>>Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
>>URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
>>Private email: piet at vanoostrum.org
> 
> 
> It's not that unfeasible - I can think of a few instances off the top of my head where
> management have read something in a magazine or heard something in conversation, then
> come in full of vim and vigour the next day - telling people to create item X using buzzword
> technology Y by the end of the day, the week or whatever, despite the devs having never seen it,
> despite the timescale being insufficient, and despite there being *real* work to do.
> 
[obYorkshireman] You were lucky. Mine used to come in like this *every 
bloody Monday morning*. British readers familiar with Kenneth Grahame's 
"The Wind in the Willows" will recognise a technological Mr. Toad here. 
The guy wanted to hit every available technology with a technical staff 
of two people, and seriously appeared to believe that he could just keep 
doing this until he came upon one that made money. Until it did he had 
the pleasure of bitching about how much of his money the company was 
swallowing. The last words I ever uttered to that man were a 
physiological impossibility. [Feels better].

> Even if it's just because they want to see it, or to impress other management types with their
> use of the latest "trend", I believe the best response is to just get on with it.
> Self-preservation and all that.
> 
Clearly it's good press for Python if it *could* pass this test of 
usability. Don't see Perl users doing that (though, to be fair, I'm very 
little involved with Perl now). And since the boss signs the cheques, 
one should mollify them when ethically possible.

> Even so, the idea of using python across the company is actually a very sensible one, so I expect
> it's programmer's enthusiasm fuelling things in this case.
> 
That's right, blame the poor technical staff ...

regards
  Steve
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