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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 20:31:46 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-02-20 20:31:46 (GMT)
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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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diff --git a/Lib/test/regrtest.py b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
index 135a90e..26ba982 100755
--- a/Lib/test/regrtest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/regrtest.py
@@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ def main(tests=None, testdir=None, verbose=0, quiet=False,
except ValueError:
print("Couldn't find starting test (%s), using all tests" % start)
if randomize:
+ hashseed = os.getenv('PYTHONHASHSEED')
+ if not hashseed:
+ os.environ['PYTHONHASHSEED'] = str(random_seed)
+ os.execv(sys.executable, [sys.executable] + sys.argv)
+ return
random.seed(random_seed)
print("Using random seed", random_seed)
random.shuffle(selected)