I understand why putting mutable objects in a dictionary is dangerous. However, converting all lists/sets to tuples/frozensets is expensive; and for many types, there's no easily available immutable versions at all. So, sometimes it may be worth hashing mutable objects directly, with the appropriate precautions to ensure the objects in question are never modified.
Before I start implementing the very complicated custom hash functions for mutable objects, I wanted to check if there's any disadvantage to using pickle.dumps
as the hash function - either in terms of performance or collisions or anything else.
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