[Python-3000] object.__hash__()

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/27/06, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand the problem right, the reason for not wanting to
> remove __hash__ from object  is that it's often convenient to have a
> dict or set where objects are compared by id() instead of by value.

No, not at all. This is for objects whose __eq__ is also the default
(which happens to compare by id). Such objects aren't considered to
have a "value" in the sense that a list or dict or int has a value,
because whatever attributes they have aren't considered for
comparison. Each instance of such classes is a unique value.

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