A few thoughts on this: a) This is not a new issue, I'm curious what the new interest is in it.
b) Whatever the solution to this is, it is *not* CPython specific, any decision should be reflected in the Python language spec IMO, if CPython has the semantic that dicts aren't vulnerable to hash collision then users *will* rely on this and another implementation having a different (valid) behavior opens up users to security issues. c) I'm not convinced a randomized hash is appropriate for the default dict, for a number of reasons: it's a performance hit on every dict operations, using a per-process seed means you can't compile the hash of an obj at Python's compile time, a per-dict seed inhibits a bunch of other optimizations. These may not be relevant to CPython, but they are to PyPy and probably the invoke-dynamic work on Jython (pursuant to point b). Therefore I think these should be considered application issues, since request limiting is difficult and error prone, I'd recommend the Python stdlib including a non-hash based map (such as a binary tree). Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com