[issue27706] Random.seed, whose purpose is purportedly determinism, behaves non-deterministically with strings due to hash randomization

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Glyph Lefkowitz added the comment:

For what it's worth, I don't much care whether this is fixed or not; I ended up wanting to leak less information from the RNG output anyway so I wrote this:

https://gist.github.com/glyph/ceca96100a3049fefea6f2035abbd9ea

but I felt like it should be reported.

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