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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:08:53 +1100
Subject: Re: order independent hash?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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2011/12/5 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>:
> If a Python
> implementation tried to implement dict as a tree, instances of classes
> that define only __eq__ and __hash__ would not be correctly inserted in
> such a dict.

Couldn't you just make a tree of hash values? Okay, that's probably
not the most useful way to do things, but technically it'd comply with
the spec.

ChrisA