Christoph Zwerschke added the comment:
My point was that it's not immediately obvious what "by default" means and that
hashability is not only affected by the __hash__ method but also by __eq__.
But I agree, you can argue that "by default" already includes not adding any
special methods like
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
The docs look correct to me:
>>> class A:
pass
>>> hash(A())
274859987
User defined classes are in-fact hashable by default. Other methods can be
defined to change hashability, but they are not the default.
FWIW, it isn't the pu
New submission from Christoph Zwerschke :
The Python documentation says about hashability in the glossary
(https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-hashable):
"Objects which are instances of user-defined classes are hashable by default."
This is not quite true. Objects of a user-defined c
