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authorRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2019-05-27 17:21:31 (GMT)
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bpo-37051: Refine note on what objects are hashable (GH-13587)
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@@ -512,8 +512,10 @@ Glossary
Hashability makes an object usable as a dictionary key and a set member,
because these data structures use the hash value internally.
- All of Python's immutable built-in objects are hashable; mutable
- containers (such as lists or dictionaries) are not. Objects which are
+ Most of Python's immutable built-in objects are hashable; mutable
+ containers (such as lists or dictionaries) are not; immutable
+ containers (such as tuples and frozensets) are only hashable if
+ their elements are hashable. Objects which are
instances of user-defined classes are hashable by default. They all
compare unequal (except with themselves), and their hash value is derived
from their :func:`id`.