Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > how that's acceptable?
For docutils, we'll most likely propose some variant of Stéphane Wirtel's script to test semantic equivalence for docutils. For other cases, Serhiy is working on a C14N canonicalization tool which is specifically designed for the task of creating reproducible output, in a cross-language standards compliant way. As Stefan Behnel clearly articulated, there are multiple reasons why Python should not guarantee byte-for-byte serialization across point releases. That said, we'll likely make the guarantee across micro-releases. That will make it possible a third mitigation strategy of generating new baseline files for a new point releases and adding a version check to decide which baseline to test against. FWIW, we had a similar discussion regarding hash randomization. While there are a number of significant differences, the outcome is relevantL User tests that depended on non-guaranteed implementation details had to be fixed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34160> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
