[docs] [issue14617] confusing docs with regard to __hash__
Ethan Furman
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 11 19:57:58 CEST 2012
Ethan Furman added the comment:
R. David Murray wrote:
> I rewrote the section a bit differently than you did in your patch...if you think my changes are not an improvement please let me know.
This line is incorrect:
A class which defines its own :meth:`__hash__` that explicitly raises a
:exc:`TypeError` would be incorrectly identified as hashable by an
``isinstance(obj, collections.Hashable)`` call.
It should be "would not be correctly identified as hashable".
Otherwise, looks great.
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