> It's not really needed; but since it works with 6+ hex digits there might
> be false positives.
I searched the messages, and it turns out that primarily long numbers
would give false positives:
Python 1.6a2 (#7, Apr 24 2000, 23:02:54) [GCC pgcc-2.91.66 19990314
minidom (as the proposed documentation in patch 101821 explains) does
Closed as Duplicate; see bug 435026 for details. It's an
the test is extended to 2000000 objects on my machine
IRIX rattler 6.5 10120734 IP32
hash("DNSSEC") == 8704052292078464
[New Thread 2305843009213881680 (LWP 23166)]
So I guess mandating square brackets is reasonable - alternatively,
mandating a fixed length could have worked as well, I guess.
Regards,
Martin
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