On June 14, 2022 10:29:40 PM CDT, Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
>On 14/06/2022 11:20 pm, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
>>
>> Summing the ordinal of the characters won't catch transposition:
>>
>> >>> chars = 'ab'
>> >>> sum([ord(c) for c in chars])
>> 195
>> >>> chars = 'ba'
>> >>> sum([ord(c) for c in chars])
>> 195
>>
>> Better to use a real hash algorithm if you're trying to detect changes. My
>> note above about hashing not being required is because you don't need to
>> detect changes because you explicitly already know when changes are being
>> made.
>>
>
>Thanks Ryan.
>
>It is all working now. I append " - No longer relevant" to the note title if
>any change is detected. Otherwise the note gets deleted.
>
Good to hear! Seems like an interesting project.
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