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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	congma, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date	2021-04-10.07:14:42
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Mark, is there any reason hash(float('NaN')) and hash(Decimal('NaN')) have to be a constant? Since NaNs don't compare equal, the hash homomorphism has no restrictions. Why not have hash() return the id() like we do for instances of object? I understand that sys.hash_info.nan would be invalidated, but that was likely useless anyway.

Mark, is there any reason hash(float('NaN')) and hash(Decimal('NaN')) have to be a constant?  Since NaNs don't compare equal, the hash homomorphism has no restrictions.  Why not have hash() return the id() like we do for instances of object?

I understand that sys.hash_info.nan would be invalidated, but that was likely useless anyway.

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