New submission from Ramchandra Apte <maniandra...@gmail.com>:
If you run hash on strings containing only null characters it returns the
length of the string
>>> hash("\0")
1
>>> hash("\0\0")
2
>>> hash("\0"*1000)
1000
This behaviour is not like proper hash functions.
The hashes of these strings should exhibit the avalanche effect like in a
proper hash function.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 150587
nosy: ramchandra.apte
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: hash() on string containing only null characters returns the length of
the string
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue13710>
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