Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Well, ideally we should drop the automatic hash() and only accept: 1) ints/longs 2) buffer-like objects
(and tell people to hash() explicitly if they want to) If that's too disruptive, we should document it. And, for 3.x, provide the following recipe to hash from a bytes object without losing entropy, and keeping the same results under 32-bit and 64-bit builds: >>> import random >>> random.seed(int.from_bytes(b'foo', 'little')) >>> random.random() 0.08384169414918807 ---------- versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7889> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
