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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:35:52 -0700
Subject: Re: frozendict
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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Nathan Rice
<nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I said, two dictionaries created from the same input will be the
> same...

That's an implementation detail, not a guarantee.  It will hold for
current versions of CPython but not necessarily for other Python
implementations.