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isinstance(obj, Hashable) raises TypeError when both obj and type(obj) are unhashable #129589

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Bug description:

Assumption: isinstance(anything, any_type) should never raise.

The problem appears to be in _abc.c function _abc__abc_subclasscheck_impl (known at runtime as _abc._abc_subclasscheck()), which reads (in part):

    /* 1. Check cache. */
    incache = _in_weak_set(impl->_abc_cache, subclass);

The implementation assumes subclass is hashable. That's almost always true of classes, but not guaranteed.

Reproduction case:

from __future__ import annotations
from collections.abc import Hashable

class UnhashableMeta(type):
    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
        return super().__eq__(other)

class UnhashableClass(metaclass=UnhashableMeta):
    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
        return super().__eq__(other)

# any non-hashable instance of a non-hashable class
#         ┌────────┴────────┐
isinstance(UnhashableClass(), Hashable)

Traceback for (cpython) Python 3.13.1:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
  File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
  File ".../bug.py", line 14, in <module>
    isinstance(UnhashableClass(), Hashable)
    ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen abc>", line 119, in __instancecheck__
  File "<frozen abc>", line 123, in __subclasscheck__
TypeError: unhashable type: 'UnhashableMeta'

Tracebacks are nearly identical with Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12, as well as Python 3.14.0a4.

CPython versions tested on:

3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

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