29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
11:25 a.m.
On 12/28/2011 9:09 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Also, randomizing the hash wreaks havoc on doctests, book examples not matching actual dict reprs, and on efforts by users to optimize the insertion order into dicts with frequent lookups. I don't have a strong opinion about what to do about this vulnerability, but I know that none of these three reasons are a good reason to not change anything. Dictionary key order has never been guaranteed, and changes from time to time. Any code relying on it is broken to begin with. This is one of the reasons not to use doctests in the first place: comparing dicts textually has always been silly.
--Ned.