--- a/Modules/main.c	Mon Feb 20 22:06:59 2012 +0100
+++ b/Modules/main.c	Tue Feb 21 00:33:36 2012 +0100
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 static int  orig_argc;
 
 /* command line options */
-#define BASE_OPTS L"bBc:dEhiJm:OqsStuvVW:xX:?"
+#define BASE_OPTS L"bBc:dEhiJm:OqRsStuvVW:xX:?"
 
 #define PROGRAM_OPTS BASE_OPTS
 
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@
 -O     : optimize generated bytecode slightly; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x\n\
 -OO    : remove doc-strings in addition to the -O optimizations\n\
 -q     : don't print version and copyright messages on interactive startup\n\
+-R     : use a pseudo-random salt to make hash() values of various types be\n\
+         unpredictable between separate invocations of the interpreter, as\n\
+         a defence against denial-of-service attacks\n\
 -s     : don't add user site directory to sys.path; also PYTHONNOUSERSITE\n\
 -S     : don't imply 'import site' on initialization\n\
 ";
@@ -101,8 +104,14 @@
 "               The default module search path uses %s.\n"
 "PYTHONCASEOK : ignore case in 'import' statements (Windows).\n"
 "PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.\n"
-"PYTHONFAULTHANDLER: dump the Python traceback on fatal errors.\n"
-;
+"PYTHONFAULTHANDLER: dump the Python traceback on fatal errors.\n\
+";
+static char *usage_6 = "\
+PYTHONHASHSEED: if this variable is set to ``random``, the effect is the same \n\
+   as specifying the :option:`-R` option: a random value is used to seed the\n\
+   hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects.  It can also be set to an integer\n\
+   in the range [0,4294967295] to get hash values with a predictable seed.\n\
+";
 
 static int
 usage(int exitcode, wchar_t* program)
@@ -118,6 +127,7 @@
         fputs(usage_3, f);
         fprintf(f, usage_4, DELIM);
         fprintf(f, usage_5, DELIM, PYTHONHOMEHELP);
+        fputs(usage_6, f);
     }
 #if defined(__VMS)
     if (exitcode == 0) {
@@ -431,6 +441,10 @@
             Py_QuietFlag++;
             break;
 
+        case 'R':
+            Py_HashRandomizationFlag++;
+            break;
+
         /* This space reserved for other options */
 
         default: