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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 21:31:46 +0100
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 21:31:46 +0100
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Merge from 3.1: Issue #13703: add a way to randomize the hash values of basic types (str, bytes, datetime)
in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated. The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this behavior.
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@@ -1272,6 +1272,8 @@ Basic customization
inheritance of :meth:`__hash__` will be blocked, just as if :attr:`__hash__`
had been explicitly set to :const:`None`.
+ See also the :option:`-R` command-line option.
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.. method:: object.__bool__(self)