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.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/script_helper.py b/Lib/test/script_helper.py
index 0699cf61a2..fca28d37c3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/script_helper.py
+++ b/Lib/test/script_helper.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
 import sys
 import os
-import re
 import os.path
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
@@ -19,11 +18,15 @@ def _assert_python(expected_success, *args, **env_vars):
     cmd_line = [sys.executable]
     if not env_vars:
         cmd_line.append('-E')
-    cmd_line.extend(args)
     # Need to preserve the original environment, for in-place testing of
     # shared library builds.
     env = os.environ.copy()
+    # But a special flag that can be set to override -- in this case, the
+    # caller is responsible to pass the full environment.
+    if env_vars.pop('__cleanenv', None):
+        env = {}
     env.update(env_vars)
+    cmd_line.extend(args)
     p = subprocess.Popen(cmd_line, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                          stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                          env=env)