From 0741c52bee7f26b67656d0a7eb6a9c5d4d208876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sabfo Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:43:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gh-130130: Clarify `hash=False` docs in `dataclasses.field` (GH-130324) (cherry picked from commit 47ace539950fb675d5968736348f0d724ba199f0) Co-authored-by: Sabfo --- Doc/library/dataclasses.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst index 87b532fb4f8357..3151232588f53b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst +++ b/Doc/library/dataclasses.rst @@ -277,10 +277,11 @@ Module contents string returned by the generated :meth:`~object.__repr__` method. - *hash*: This can be a bool or ``None``. If true, this field is - included in the generated :meth:`~object.__hash__` method. If ``None`` (the - default), use the value of *compare*: this would normally be - the expected behavior. A field should be considered in the hash - if it's used for comparisons. Setting this value to anything + included in the generated :meth:`~object.__hash__` method. If false, + this field is excluded from the generated :meth:`~object.__hash__`. + If ``None`` (the default), use the value of *compare*: this would + normally be the expected behavior, since a field should be included + in the hash if it's used for comparisons. Setting this value to anything other than ``None`` is discouraged. One possible reason to set ``hash=False`` but ``compare=True``