Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 12:16:52 EDT 2017

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2017-07-18 18:08 GMT+02:00 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:
> Raymond Hettinger:
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>> And complexity leads to bugs
>> (the C
>> optimization of random number seeding caused a major bug in the 3.6.0
>> release

Hum, I guess that Raymond is referring to http://bugs.python.org/issue29085

This regression was not by an optimization at all, but a change to
harden Python:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/

Victor

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