[Python-Dev] For Python 3k, drop default/implicit hash, and comparison

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:29 PM 11/6/2005 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>On 11/6/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > At 12:58 PM 11/6/2005 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > >The main way this breaks down is when comparing objects of different
> > >types. While most comparisons typically are defined in terms of
> > >comparisons on simpler or contained objects, two objects of different
> > >types that happen to have the same "key" shouldn't necessarily be
> > >considered equal.
> >
> > When I use this pattern, I often just include the object's type in the
> > key.  (I call it the 'hashcmp' value, but otherwise it's the same pattern.)
>
>But how do you make that work with subclassing? (I'm guessing your
>answer is that you don't. :-)

By either changing the subclass __init__ to initialize it with a different 
hashcmp value, or by redefining the method that computes it.