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  Re: adding elements to set Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-12-08 18:32 +0100

#16853 — Re: adding elements to set

Chris Angelico wrote:

> It checks for equality using hashes. By default, in Python 2, objects'
> hashes are their ids - meaning that no two of them hash alike, and
> you'll get duplicates in your set. (In Python 3, the default appears
> to be that they're unhashable and hence can't go into the set at all.)

$ python3.2 -c'print({object(), object()})'
{<object object at 0x269dd00>, <object object at 0x269db60>}

The only thing that has changed (in 2.7) is the algorithm to calculate the 
hash value. The bits are rotated to turn the four least significant bits 
into the most signicant ones. According to a comment in Objects/objects.c
the change leads to fewer hash collisions.

$ python2.6 -c'o = object(); print hash(o) == id(o)'
True
$ python2.7 -c'o = object(); print hash(o) == id(o)'
False
$ python2.7 -c'o = object(); print hash(o) == id(o)>>4 | (id(o)&0xF)<<60'
True
$ python3.2 -c'o = object(); print(hash(o) == id(o)>>4 | (id(o)&0xF)<<60)'
True

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