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| From | Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: order independent hash? |
| Date | 2011-12-01 11:37 +0100 |
| References | <jb57p7$b1j$1@dough.gmane.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3193.1322736010.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 11/30/2011 01:32 PM, 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? > Do youmean hash like digest like md5sum / sha1 ? You should sort the words alphabetically, concatenate them with a space or any character, that will NEVER be part of a word and calulate the hash. If words can exist multiple times, then youhad tu uniqufy them (u using a python dict / set) first.
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Re: order independent hash? Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 11:37 +0100
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