Message 151815 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

With an collision counting exception you'd get a clear notice that something in your data and your application is wrong and needs fixing. The rest of your web app will continue to work fine

Except when it doesn't, because you've also broken batch processing functions and the like.

Note: Even if Python works around the problem successfully, there's no guarantee that the data doesn't end up being processed by some other tool in the chain with similar problems.

Non-Python tools don't use Python's hash functions, they are therefore not vulnerable to the same data.