josch added the comment: Thank you for your quick reply.
Yes, as I wrote above there are ways around it by creating a stable in-memory representation and comparing that to a stable in-memory representation of the expected output. Since both input are several hundred megabytes in size, this would be CPU intensive but do-able. I would've just likeld to avoid treating this output in a special way because I also compare other files and it is most easy to just md5sum all of the files in one fell swoop. I started using PYTHONHASHSEED to gain stable output for a certain platform/version combination. When I uploaded my package to Debian and it was built on 13 different architectures I noticed the descrepancy when the same version but different platforms are involved. >From my perspective it would be nice to just be able to set PYTHONHASH32BIT >(or whatever) and call it a day. But of course it is your choice whether you >would allow such a "hack" or not. Would your decision be more favorable if you received a patch implementing this feature? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22621> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
