slice not hashable

[WillBradshaw]

BPO	40603
Nosy	@rhettinger, @stevendaprano, @remilapeyre, @isdanni
Files	patches.zip: patch to add slicing functionality to slices

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created_at = <Date 2020-05-12.01:23:39.253>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'easy', 'type-feature', '3.9']
title = 'slice not hashable'
updated_at = <Date 2020-05-12.08:34:03.335>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/WillBradshaw'

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creation = <Date 2020-05-12.01:23:39.253>
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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue40603'
versions = ['Python 3.9']

Linked PRs

• GH-84783: Make the slice object hashable #101264
• GH-84783: Document GH-101264 (Make the slice object hashable) in What's New. #102548
• GH-84783: Mention Author for GH-101264 (make slices hashable) #103146

[WillBradshaw]

slice cannot be hashed which make some operations significantly more annoying. see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/SvhkWwSDeIw

[stevendaprano]

Please re-upload the patch file as an uncompressed text file, as it is quite difficult for many people to view zip files in their browser.