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Sat Apr 19 02:30:16 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134164.html

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:57:55PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014, at 14:46, Jim J. Jewett wrote:
> > (1)  I believe the recent consensus was that the number of comparisons
> > made in a dict lookup is an implementation detail.  (Please correct me
> > if I am wrong.)
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> > 
> > (2)  Is "the item will be hashed at least once" a language guarantee?
> 
> No. (Would that be useful at all?)

I'm curious under what circumstances a key won't be hashed at all.

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Steven

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