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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:38:14 +0000
From: Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
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On 30/11/2011 12:32, Neal Becker wrote:
> I like to hash a list of words (actually, the command line args of my program)
> in such a way that different words will create different hash, but not sensitive
> to the order of the words.  Any ideas?

How about?

   hash (frozenset ("hello world".split ()))

TJG