Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:55:10PM +0200, Mario Ruggier wrote:
>
>>Shall I consider hashing the keys myself? I am not sure what the
>>implications are to my code...
>
>
> You need to have a __cmp__ method that provides a stable total
> ordering of the keys.  It must still give the same order after keys
> are pickled and loaded.

FWIW, you can see similar problems if you screw up your rich comparison
operators (__lt__ & friends). Not that I know from personal experience
or anything (ahem).

BTW, I thought __cmp__ was deprecated... seems a shame - it's so much
easier than spelling out all the rich operators...

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