[Python-3000] Need help completing ABC pep (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 11:59:45 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I've started a PEP on Abstract Base Classes (ABCs), PEP 3119:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3119/ While I'm not ready yet to answer tough questions about this compared to alternative proposals, I am ready for feedback on the various open issues sprinkled throughout the current text, especially concerning decisions regarding exactly which operations to include in the various ABCs, and also regarding the level of detail required in the PEP.

It's not listed as an open issue, but when looking at the list of ABCs, I noticed a potential solution to a different problem we have occasionally wrestled with: the unfortunate side-effects of having a default hash method defined on object.

If the details of collections.Hashable.hash are declared to be implementation dependent rather than having it always return 0, then we can get rid of object.hash.

For CPython, collections.Hashable.hash would then just invoke id() on the object, and other implementations can also do whatever they currently do for object.hash

Cheers, Nick.

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