[Python-Dev] slightly inconsistent set/list pop behaviour (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 8 20:30:02 CEST 2009


foo = set([1, 65537]) foo.pop() 1 foo = set([65537, 1]) foo.pop() 65537 You wrote a program to find the two smallest ints that would have a hash collision in the CPython set implementation? I'm impressed. And by impressed I mean frightened.

Well, Mark is the guy who deals with floating point numbers for fun. That should frighten you :-)

Martin



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