On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:47:13 PM UTC+8, Peter Otten wrote: > 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? > > You mean a typical python hash value which would be /likely/ to differ for > different lists and /guaranteed/ to be equal for equal lists is not good > enough? Because that would be easy: > > args = sys.argv[1:] > hash(tuple(sorted(args))) # consider duplicate args
I knew a hash can replace a bi-directional linked list. The value can be a multi-field string to be parsed for further actions. Is this what you are asking? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
