[Python-Dev] dict __contains__ raises TypeError on unhashable input
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Jul 20 01:47:36 CEST 2013
While working on issue #18508 I stumbled across this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/enum.py", line 417, in __new__
if value in cls._value2member_map:
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
I'll wrap it in a try-except block, but I must admit I was surprised the answer wasn't False. After all, if the input
is unhashable then obviously it's not in the dict; furthermore, if I were to compare the number 5 with a set() I would
get False, not a TypeMismatch error, and dict keys are basically done by equality, the hash is just (?) a speed-up.
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~Ethan~
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