Hash of None varies per-machine

[Peter Pearson]

On 03 Apr 2009 10:57:05 -0700, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
> ben.taylor at email.com writes:
>> 1. Is it correct that if you hash two things that are not equal they
>> might give you the same hash value?
>
> Yes, hashes are 32 bit numbers and there are far more than 2**32
> possible Python values (think of long ints), so obviously there must
> be multiple values that hash to the same slot.

For example, on this machine:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) 
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>>> hash( "latox" ) == hash( "uzyky" )
True

YMMV.

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