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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On the Python Dev mailing list, there is a discussion going on about the
> stability of the hash function for strings.
> 
> How many people rely on hash(some_string) being stable across Python
> versions? Does anyone have code that will be broken if the string hashing
> algorithm changes?

Nobody who understands the question ;)