Are dictionaries the same as hashtables?

Martin Marcher martin at marcher.name
Tue Aug 26 03:43:40 EDT 2008


On 2008-08-26 00:32:20, cnb wrote:
> Are dictionaries the same as hashtables?

Yes, but there is nothing in there that does sane collision handling
like making a list instead of simply overwriting.

PS: your sig was *a bit* longer than you question. please don't do
that...
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