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TL;DR: You first need to look for the hash "tombstone", then you need to find the actual insertion which may be very far away. Raymond Hettinger (HN commenter
by linsomniac 8y ago
TL;DR: You first need to look for the hash "tombstone", then you need to find the actual insertion which may be very far away.
Raymond Hettinger (HN commenter and all around Smart Dude (tm)) has a good talk from PyCon 2017 about the evolution of Python dictionaries that goes into tombstones and so much more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg