object.__hash__()
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object.__hash__(42)
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: expected 0 arguments, got 1
Would it be better if object.__hash__() raised a NotImplementedError?
It can't -- it's type.__hash__(object).
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)