On Jan 13, 2012, at 05:38 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > >> Breaking due to variable hashing is deterministic: you notice it as >> soon as you upgrade (and then you use PYTHONHASHSEED to disable >> variable hashing). That seems better than unpredictable breaking when >> some legitimate collision chain happens. > > >Fair enough. But I'm now uncomfortable with turning this on for bugfix >releases. I'm fine with making this the default in 3.3, just not in 3.2, >3.1 or 2.x -- it will break too much code and organizations will have to >roll back the release or do extensive testing before installing a bugfix >release -- exactly what we *don't* want for those.
+1 -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com