[issue27706] Random.seed, whose purpose is purportedly determinism, behaves non-deterministically with strings due to hash randomization

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

For 2.7, we're going to add a note to the docs.  For 3.5 and 3.6, we're adjusting the version==1 logic to meet the documented guarantee.

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versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.6

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