[docs] [issue14617] confusing docs with regard to __hash__

Ethan Furman report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 11 20:01:01 CEST 2012


Ethan Furman added the comment:

Ethan Furman wrote:
> Ethan Furman added the comment:
> 
> R. David Murray wrote:
>> I rewrote the section a bit differently than you did in your patch...if you think my changes are not an improvement please let me know.
> 
> This line is incorrect:
> 
> A class which defines its own :meth:`__hash__` that explicitly raises a 
> :exc:`TypeError` would be incorrectly identified as hashable by an 
> ``isinstance(obj, collections.Hashable)`` call.
> 
> It should be "would not be correctly identified as hashable".
> 
> Otherwise, looks great.

Argh.  Nevermind!  It all looks good.  :)

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