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| From | Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: order independent hash? |
| Date | 2011-12-01 08:55 -0500 |
| References | <jb57p7$b1j$1@dough.gmane.org> <jb7ldj$s8v$2@dough.gmane.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3198.1322747760.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
Gelonida N wrote: > 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. Yes that sounds just like what I wanted - thanks!
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