[Python-Dev] rXXX links in the bug tracker after the migration to Mercurial

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> It's not really needed; but since it works with 6+ hex digits there might
> be false positives.

I searched the messages, and it turns out that primarily long numbers
would give false positives:

 Python 1.6a2 (#7, Apr 24 2000, 23:02:54)  [GCC pgcc-2.91.66 19990314
 minidom (as the proposed documentation in patch 101821 explains) does
 Closed as Duplicate; see bug 435026 for details.  It's an
 the test is extended to 2000000 objects on my machine
 IRIX rattler 6.5 10120734 IP32
 hash("DNSSEC") == 8704052292078464
 [New Thread 2305843009213881680 (LWP 23166)]

So I guess mandating square brackets is reasonable - alternatively,
mandating a fixed length could have worked as well, I guess.

Regards,
Martin