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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 11:17:15 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I do see your point though: object.hash makes it possible to use all sorts of objects as dict keys by default, as long as they don't implement eq. But perhaps this is not such a good idea and we should just get rid of it and add hash back to specific objects that are useful to use as keys? (E.g. classes but not iterators, to take some extreme examples.)

We've tried to do this before - the point where we got stuck was the fact that Jython needed a separate location to store the default hash method (unlike CPython, Jython's id() and object.hash() do different things), and we couldn't come up with a reasonable location for it.

I agree that moving the default method from object to Hashable doesn't eliminate the errors that arise from redefining eq without redefining hash, but at least it restricts them to those classes which have Hashable somewhere in their MRO.

Cheers, Nick.

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