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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-12-04 21:02:07 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-12-04 21:02:07 (GMT)
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Add note about fixed hash() of mutable objects.
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
(c) The __get__ method didn't check whether the argument was an
instance of the type used in creation of the super instance.
+- Previously, hash() of an instance of a subclass of a mutable type
+ (list or dictionary) would return some value, rather than raising
+ TypeError. This has been fixed. Also, directly calling
+ dict.__hash__ and list.__hash__ now raises the same TypeError
+ (previously, these were the same as object.__hash__).
Core and builtins