Re: A proposal to modify `None` so that it hashes to a constant

Nah, `__prepare__` very much predates stable dicts and that problem was
solved differently.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 4:46 PM Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 29/11/22 12:51 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > "Sets weren't meant to be deterministic" sounds like a remnant of
> > the old philosophy, where we said the same about dicts -- until they
> > became deterministic without slowing down, and then everybody loved it.
>
> I got the impression that there were some internal language reasons
> to want stable dicts, e.g. so that the class dict passed to __prepare__
> preserves the order in which names are assigned in the class body. Are
> there any such use cases for stable sets?
>
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> Greg
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