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Am 15.01.2012 11:13, schrieb Stefan Behnel:
> That's a stupid design. Using a hash function that the application does not
> control to index into persistent storage just screams for getting the code
> broken at some point.

I agree completely with that (I hit the corresponding problem with suds 
while transitioning from 32-bit Python to 64-bit Python, where hashes 
aren't stable either), but as stated in my mail: that wasn't the 
original question. ;-)

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--- Heiko.