[Python-Dev] Documentation Error for hash (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 23:51:45 CEST 2008

Michael Foord wrote:

This may have been true for old style classes, but as new style classes inherit a default hash from object - mutable objects will be usable as dictionary keys (hashed on identity) unless they implement a hash method that raises a type error.

Shouldn't the advice be that classes that implement comparison methods should always implement hash (wasn't this nearly enforced?), and that mutable objects should raise a TypeError in hash.

Hmm, I thought I fixed those docs when I did the PyObject_HashNotImplemented patch... (you can set hash = None rather than raising a TypeError explicitly now so that collections.Hashable correctly returns False - the slot machinery in typeobject.c will then take of turning that into PyObject_HashNotImplemented at the C level).

However, looking at the relevant checkins, it appears I only updated the C API docs and didn't correct the library or language references.

I reopened http://bugs.python.org/issue2235 - there are some other doc fixes I need to do this weekend for RC1, so I can tackle this at the same time.

Cheers, Nick.

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