Issue #13703: add a way to randomize the hash values of basic types (str, bytes, datetime)

in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated.

The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this
behavior.

Lib/test/test_set.py

@@ -734,6 +734,17 @@ class TestBasicOps(unittest.TestCase):
         if self.repr is not None:
             self.assertEqual(repr(self.set), self.repr)
 
+    def check_repr_against_values(self):
+        text = repr(self.set)
+        self.assertTrue(text.startswith('{'))
+        self.assertTrue(text.endswith('}'))
+
+        result = text[1:-1].split(', ')
+        result.sort()
+        sorted_repr_values = [repr(value) for value in self.values]
+        sorted_repr_values.sort()
+        self.assertEqual(result, sorted_repr_values)
+
     def test_print(self):
         try:
             fo = open(support.TESTFN, "w")
@@ -892,7 +903,9 @@ class TestBasicOpsString(TestBasicOps):
         self.set    = set(self.values)
         self.dup    = set(self.values)
         self.length = 3
-        self.repr   = "{'a', 'c', 'b'}"
+
+    def test_repr(self):
+        self.check_repr_against_values()
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -903,7 +916,9 @@ class TestBasicOpsBytes(TestBasicOps):
         self.set    = set(self.values)
         self.dup    = set(self.values)
         self.length = 3
-        self.repr   = "{b'a', b'c', b'b'}"
+
+    def test_repr(self):
+        self.check_repr_against_values()
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -916,11 +931,13 @@ class TestBasicOpsMixedStringBytes(TestBasicOps):
         self.set    = set(self.values)
         self.dup    = set(self.values)
         self.length = 4
-        self.repr   = "{'a', b'a', 'b', b'b'}"
 
     def tearDown(self):
         warnings.filters = self.warning_filters
 
+    def test_repr(self):
+        self.check_repr_against_values()
+
 #==============================================================================
 
 def baditer():