diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/using')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/using/cmdline.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 5cb9071770..598eb2583d 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -277,8 +277,9 @@ Miscellaneous options .. cmdoption:: -R - Kept for compatibility. On Python 3.3 and greater, hash randomization is - turned on by default. + Turn on hash randomization. This option only has an effect if the + :envvar:`PYTHONHASHSEED` environment variable is set to ``0``, since hash + randomization is enabled by default. On previous versions of Python, this option turns on hash randomization, so that the :meth:`__hash__` values of str, bytes and datetime |