On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > In effort to get a fix out before Perl 6 goes mainstream, Barry and I > have decided to pronounce on what we want for our stable releases. > What we have decided is that > 1. Simple hash randomization is the way to go. We think this has the > best chance of actually fixing the problem while being fairly > straightforward such that we're comfortable putting it in a stable > release. > 2. It will be off by default in stable releases and enabled by an > envar at runtime. This will prevent code breakage from dictionary > order changing as well as people depending on the hash stability.
Okay, good call! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
