On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:55:22 +1100
Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On 14/01/12 12:58, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
>
> > I do like *randomly seeding the hash*. *+1*. This is easy. It can easily be
> > back ported to any Python version.
> >
> > It is perfectly okay to break existing users who had anything depending on
> > ordering of internal hash tables. Their code was already broken.
>
> For the record:
>
> steve@runes:~$ python -c "print(hash('spam ham'))"
> -376510515
> steve@runes:~$ jython -c "print(hash('spam ham'))"
> 2054637885
Not to mention:
$ ./python -c "print(hash('spam ham'))"
-6071355389066156083
(64-bit CPython)
Regards
Antoine.
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