On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:15:08 -0800 >> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: >>> Aren't memoryview objects mutable? I think that the underlying memory >>> can change, so it shouldn't be hashable. >> >> Only if the original object is itself mutable, otherwise the memoryview >> is read-only. >> >> I would propose the following algorithm: >> 1) try to calculate the original object's hash; if it fails, consider >> the memoryview unhashable (the buffer is probably mutable) >> 2) otherwise, calculate the memoryview's hash with the same algorithm >> as bytes objects (so that it's compatible with equality comparisons) > > Having a memory view be hashable if the object it references is > hashable seems analogous to the way tuples are hashable if everything > they reference is hashable, so +0 from me. Yeah, that's ok with me too. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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