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| author | Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com> | 2021-06-15 19:48:35 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-06-15 19:48:35 +0100 |
| commit | 1d10bf0bb9409a406c56b0de8870df998637fd0f (patch) | |
| tree | ad498cd8d1a737cfdafe746d7b65a4e8e49ed52a | |
| parent | cb2014f2077c92c35486bf0db7e646a68478a7a5 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-1d10bf0bb9409a406c56b0de8870df998637fd0f.tar.gz | |
bpo-43475: Add what's new entry for NaN hash changes (GH-26725)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst index 249eb733a8..9b9dd31a3b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst @@ -836,6 +836,13 @@ Other Language Changes effectless under ``from __future__ import annotations``. (Contributed by Batuhan Taskaya in :issue:`42725`.) +* Hashes of NaN values of both :class:`float` type and + :class:`decimal.Decimal` type now depend on object identity. Formerly, they + always hashed to ``0`` even though NaN values are not equal to one another. + This caused potentially quadratic runtime behavior due to excessive hash + collisions when creating dictionaries and sets containing multiple NaNs. + (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`43475`.) + New Modules =========== |