[Python-Dev] hash randomization in 3.3

[martin at v.loewis.de]

> I'm with Antoine here - being able to force a particular seed still
> matters for testing purposes. However, the documentation of the option
> may need to be updated for 3.3 to emphasise that it should only be
> used to reproduce sporadic failures. Using it to work around
> applications that can't cope with randomised hashes would be rather
> ill-advised.

In the tracker, someone proposed that the option is necessary to synchronize
the seed across processes in a cluster. I'm sure people will use it for that
if they can.

Regards,
Martin