[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 alpha 1

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Mar 7 08:56:45 CET 2012


On 07.03.2012 08:08, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Jim J. Jewett, 06.03.2012 20:43:
>>  Hash Randomization (issue 13703) is now on by default.  Unfortunately,
>>  this does break some tests; it can be temporarily turned off by setting
>>  the environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED to "0" before launching python.
>
> I don't think that makes it clear enough that that's just a work-around and
> that it's the tests that need fixing in the first place.

It's much too much for the release announcement anyway.  I'll add one bullet
point in the future announcements.

I've added a note to what's new so that someone will add an appropriate
paragraph.

Georg



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