You're welcome! I deliberately didn't go in to that for a few reasons. 1. It would have made this article very, very long. 2. It's a bit out of scope for an a

You're welcome! I deliberately didn't go in to that for a few reasons. 1. It would have made this article very, very long. 2. It's a bit out of scope for an article on hashing. 3. I think I might give hash maps their own article in future. Hash maps are fantastically deep. So many different ways to do it. You'll find a lot of material online but I'd recommend Raymond Hettinger's talk on how Pythons hash map data structure has evolved over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8.