[Python-Dev] Hash randomization for which types?
Christoph Groth
christoph at grothesque.org
Wed Feb 17 04:49:15 EST 2016
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Glenn Linderman writes:
>
> > I think hashes of all types have been randomized, not _just_ the list
> > you mentioned.
>
> Yes. There's only one hash function used, which operates on byte
> streams IIRC. That function now has a random offset. The details of
> hashing each type are in the serializations to byte streams.
Could you please elaborate? Numbers are not hashed as byte streams, at
least not up to Python 3.5. I am quite familiar with the way hashing of
numbers is done in Python 2 & 3. (I had to re-implement this for a
project of mine: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tinyarray/)
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