Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Ouch, that's a problem indeed. There's not really a clean way out
> unfortunately: either we remove object.__hash__ and let hash() do the
> default implementation, and then presence of __hash__ is no longer an
> indicator of hashability; or we keep it, and override it to raise an
> exception in unhashable types (like list.__hash__ does); or we remove
> the hashability of objects by default, which lets us solve the above
> problems at the cost of having a convenient hash by default.
>
> Personally, I'm not sure this problem needs solving; I don't recall
> ever needing to know whether something is hashable. So perhaps it's of
> purely theoretical importance? That would suit me fine given the above
> dilemma...
The only thing I've occasionally wanted in this area is an easy way to tell
__getattribute__ to raise an AttributeError for attribute 'x' even if a base
class defines it.
The use case is being able to block the inheritance of special methods that
object provides default implementations for (like '__hash__'), such that a
hasattr() check (or a check for a type slot being 0) for those special methods
will actually fail.
It would be nice to be able to spell it:
class Unhashable(object):
undef __hash__
Although that would probably require a signature change for metaclass calling
to accept an optional list of undefined names along with the dictionary of
assigned names.
Alternatively, another special attribute like __slots__ could do it:
class Unhashable(object):
__undef__ = ["__hash__"]
Or a special value recognised by the default metaclass:
class Unhashable(object):
__hash__ = Undefined
When the attributes being undefined represent type slots, the corresponding
slot would be set to 0.
Cheers,
Nick.
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