__hash__ may now return long int; the final hash

  value is obtained by invoking hash on the long int.
Fixes #1536021.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
index 8ec9e2b..15fc188 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex
@@ -1307,6 +1307,11 @@ defines mutable objects and implements a \method{__cmp__()} or
 since the dictionary implementation requires that a key's hash value
 is immutable (if the object's hash value changes, it will be in the
 wrong hash bucket).
+
+\versionchanged[\method{__hash__()} may now also return a long
+integer object; the 32-bit integer is then derived from the hash
+of that object]{2.5}
+
 \withsubitem{(object method)}{\ttindex{__cmp__()}}
 \end{methoddesc}