why is self not passed to id()?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robert Kern wrote:

> Well, that's not entirely true. They need to be not mutated while they 
> are in the dictionary, certainly. At least not in ways that affect 
> equality testing. In this case, one would also have to override 
> list.__eq__ to also compare by identity, too. Then you could mutate the 
> lists to your heart's content and the dictionary wouldn't care.

at which point you'd start wondering if it wouldn't be more efficient to 
wrap the list in a light-weight class, instead of using subclassing.

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