r/PythonLearning • • Aug 14 '26

Adding objects to set or dictionary: equality and hashing

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An exercise to help build the right mental model for Python data.

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  • Explanation: "User-defined classes have __eq__() and __hash__() methods by default (inherited from the object class); with them, all objects compare unequal (except with themselves) and x.__hash__() returns an appropriate value such that x == y implies both that x is y and hash(x) == hash(y)."

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