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authorRaphael Michel <mail@raphaelmichel.de>2016-02-19 15:49:50 +0100
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2016-02-19 10:50:48 -0500
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treecb70085f730122f5456d1dc723521ac93932243f /docs/howto
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[1.9.x] Fixed #26243 -- Noted that 'python -R' is enabled by default in Python 3.3.
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@@ -254,8 +254,9 @@ Python Options
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It's strongly recommended that you invoke the Python process running your
-Django application using the `-R`_ option or with the
-:envvar:`PYTHONHASHSEED` environment variable set to ``random``.
+Django application using the `-R`_ option or with the :envvar:`PYTHONHASHSEED`
+environment variable set to ``random``. This option is enabled by default
+starting with Python 3.3.
These options help protect your site from denial-of-service (DoS)
attacks triggered by carefully crafted inputs. Such an attack can