hash() on strings containing only null characters returns the length of the strings

[RamchandraApte]

BPO	13710
Nosy	@jcea, @benjaminp

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title = 'hash() on strings containing only null characters returns the length of the strings'
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[RamchandraApte]

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.

[benjaminp]

No. Python's dictionary implementation is designed to handle hash functions with the properties of Python's.

[jcea]

Object hashes are not crypto hashes. Use hashlib module for crypto.