[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: enable hash randomization by default (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 23:53:39 CET 2012


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:08 AM, benjamin.peterson <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:

+      Changing hash values affects the order in which keys are retrieved from a +      dict.  Although Python has never made guarantees about this ordering (and +      it typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds), enough real-world +      code implicitly relies on this non-guaranteed behavior that the +      randomization is disabled by default.

That last sentence needs to change for 3.3

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia



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