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! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
