[Python-Dev] Make str/bytes hash algorithm pluggable?

[Victor Stinner]

2013/10/3 Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>:
> A hash algorithm can be added and one avaible hash
> algorithm can be set before Py_Initialize() is called for the first
> time.

"Py_Initialize" is not the good guard. Try for example "python3 -X
faulthandler": PyObject_Hash() is called before Py_Initialize() to add
"faulthandler" key into sys._xoptions dictionary.

Today many Python internal functions are used before Python is
initialized... See the PEP 432 which proposes to improve the
situation:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0432/

Victor