[Python-Dev] Hashable memoryviews

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:15:08 -0800
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> Aren't memoryview objects mutable? I think that the underlying memory
>>> can change, so it shouldn't be hashable.
>>
>> Only if the original object is itself mutable, otherwise the memoryview
>> is read-only.
>>
>> I would propose the following algorithm:
>> 1) try to calculate the original object's hash; if it fails, consider
>>   the memoryview unhashable (the buffer is probably mutable)
>> 2) otherwise, calculate the memoryview's hash with the same algorithm
>>   as bytes objects (so that it's compatible with equality comparisons)
>
> Having a memory view be hashable if the object it references is
> hashable seems analogous to the way tuples are hashable if everything
> they reference is hashable, so +0 from me.

Yeah, that's ok with me too.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)