From: Sean.Gillespie@bisonofborg.com   
      
   I found some interesting prose (finally). The most helpful things so   
   far is the write-up on wikipedia under hashtables, and the python dict   
   implementation notes.   
      
   In the python source there is a file called dictnotes.txt in   
   Objects/.  It has some really good information in there about the   
   implementation and theory behind the python dict object (which is   
   implemented as a hashtable).   
      
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