diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index f4e3d63..e076729 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@
 
    User-defined classes have :meth:`__cmp__` and :meth:`__hash__` methods
    by default; with them, all objects compare unequal (except with themselves)
-   and ``x.__hash__()`` returns ``id(x)``.
+   and ``x.__hash__()`` returns a result derived from ``id(x)``.
 
    Classes which inherit a :meth:`__hash__` method from a parent class but
    change the meaning of :meth:`__cmp__` or :meth:`__eq__` such that the hash