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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index b6ab28617d..f7f35cbb67 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -508,8 +508,10 @@ Glossary Hashability makes an object usable as a dictionary key and a set member, because these data structures use the hash value internally. - All of Python's immutable built-in objects are hashable; mutable - containers (such as lists or dictionaries) are not. Objects which are + Most of Python's immutable built-in objects are hashable; mutable + containers (such as lists or dictionaries) are not; immutable + containers (such as tuples and frozensets) are only hashable if + their elements are hashable. Objects which are instances of user-defined classes are hashable by default. They all compare unequal (except with themselves), and their hash value is derived from their :func:`id`. |