Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

Chema, thank you for bringing this semi-conscious assumption to light. 
Intentionally breaking it significantly speeds up set and dict creation.

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nosy: +tjreedy
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> Reduce hash collisions for objects with no __hash__ method

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