[Python-Dev] hash randomization in 3.3 (original) (raw)
martin at v.loewis.de martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 22 06:20:21 CET 2012
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I'm with Antoine here - being able to force a particular seed still matters for testing purposes. However, the documentation of the option may need to be updated for 3.3 to emphasise that it should only be used to reproduce sporadic failures. Using it to work around applications that can't cope with randomised hashes would be rather ill-advised.
In the tracker, someone proposed that the option is necessary to synchronize the seed across processes in a cluster. I'm sure people will use it for that if they can.
Regards, Martin
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