On Nov 8, 3:42 pm, Mick Krippendorf <mad.m...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Wells wrote:
> > I'm not quite understanding why a tuple is hashable but a list is not.
>
> The short answer has already been given.
>
The short answer isn't entirely correct, however. Tuples are only
hashable so long as their elements are all hashable. The
documentation, though, doesn't properly describe this:
http://docs.python.org/glossary.html#term-hashable
"All of Python’s immutable built-in objects are hashable"
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