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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2012-02-21 01:42:21 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2012-02-21 01:42:21 (GMT)
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- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
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@@ -1273,6 +1273,8 @@ Basic customization
modules are still available at the time when the :meth:`__del__` method is
called.
+ See also the :option:`-R` command-line option.
+
.. method:: object.__repr__(self)