[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: enable hash randomization by default
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 23:53:39 CET 2012
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:08 AM, benjamin.peterson
<python-checkins at 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.
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