On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 16:04, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >>> object.__hash__() > 135328576 > >>> 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? -Barry