Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #18967

Re: Hash stability

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Hash stability
Date 2012-01-14 10:46 +0100
Organization None
References <4f1107b7$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.4742.1326534409.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On the Python Dev mailing list, there is a discussion going on about the
> stability of the hash function for strings.
> 
> How many people rely on hash(some_string) being stable across Python
> versions? Does anyone have code that will be broken if the string hashing
> algorithm changes?

Nobody who understands the question ;)

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Hash stability Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-14 04:42 +0000
  Re: Hash stability Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-14 10:46 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-14 23:45 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-15 11:36 +1100
    Re: Hash stability Bryan <bryanjugglercryptographer@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-15 04:03 -0800
      Re: Hash stability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-15 23:21 +1100
  Re: Hash stability Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-01-14 21:26 -0500
    Re: Hash stability Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-14 23:07 -0500
  Re: Hash stability Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-01-15 11:13 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-15 12:46 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-15 13:22 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-15 17:07 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 03:13 +1100
  Re: Hash stability Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-15 17:51 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-01-15 18:20 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-16 09:18 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2012-01-16 09:44 +0100
  Re: Hash stability Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-16 10:15 +0100

csiph-web