the name of the class a tuple of the class's base classes (which in this case is empty meaning this class has no base classes) a dictionary of the new class's attributes and methods.We're giving this class one method (remember that methods are attributes that happens to be functions):...
To understand hashable objects in Python, it is important to review what a hash table is. Followingthe article on Wikipedia, a hash table is a data structure that can map keys to values and that implements a hash function to compute the index to an array of buckets or slots. Heavy words...
I believe Object will get a hashCode function, making all objects hashable. That complicates changing operator== on complex classes, and I'm not sure it's reasonable to do it in general on, e.g., Set. That's a further complication. If sets are equal based only on elements, we need ...