What does hash do in python?

Question

I saw an example of code that where hash function is applied to a tuple. As a result it returns a negative integer. I wonder what does this function do? Google

Answer 1

You can use the Dictionary data type in python. It's very very similar to the hash—and it also supports nesting, similar to the to nested hash.

Example:

dict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'}
dict['Age'] = 8; # update existing entry
dict['School'] = "DPS School" # Add new entry

print ("dict['Age']: ", dict['Age'])
print ("dict['School']: ", dict['School'])

For more information, please reference this tutorial on the dictionary data type.