[Python-ideas] Why aren't slices hashable?

[Michael Selik]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:51 PM Ed Minnix <egregius313 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was experimenting in the repl and I noticed something odd: slices are
> not hashable. I was wondering why this would be since, I would think slices
> are immutable, and most immutable objects are hashable.
>

Apparently that was to avoid mistakes. Otherwise there would be a bit of
confusion between assigning to a slice as the key or changing many keys.

https://bugs.python.org/issue408326
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29980786/why-are-slice-objects-not-hashable-in-python
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