"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> Personally, I think we'd be better off to come up with a term for this >> property that doesn't have a commonly understood meaning that has such >> broad areas of disagreement with the property. I've been using >> "hashable", which I would currently define as "has a __hash__ method >> with the properties described in the __hash__ documentation, or does >> not have either a __cmp__ or a __eq__ method." > I would like to use "hashable" as a term as well, but it appears that > many people would understand that to mean "has a __hash__ > implementation" (i.e. hash(x) returns a value, instead of raising an > exception).
Well, the two aren't quite the same thing: hash returns a value on some things that don't have a __hash__. But that is close to the meaning I want to give it. What meaning did you have in mind? <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list