[Python-3000] Should str and bytes hash equally?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Dec 14 06:36:49 CET 2007


Adam Olsen wrote:
> It's irrelevant.  It's always possible to get the same hashes.  We'd
> need a performance reason or the like to bother changing either of
> them.

And since there's no reason to think that storing bytes
and unicode in the same dict is likely to be a frequent
requirement, it probably won't affect anything much.

--
Greg


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