[issue38769] generators are currently hashable

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

> there are other such mutable objects in python which do define
> __hash__ = None such as list and dict

Those objects compare on their contents, not on object identity.

Take a look at how hashing works in dataclasses.  You can have a mix of mutable and immutable fields as long as both __eq__ and __hash__ depend on only the immutable fields.

Also, take a look at database cursor objects.  Both __eq__ and __hash__ use object identity even though fetchone() advances the internal state (just like an iterator).

Anyway, the breaking of existing working code makes this a non-starter.

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