On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:08 AM, benjamin.peterson <python-checkins@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@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia