This is trolling Ferrous. you are a troll. Go away
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 21 January 2013 12:06, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Τη Δευτέρα, 21 Ιανουαρίου 2013 11:31:24 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Chris > Angelico έγραψε: > >> > >> Seriously, you're asking for something that's beyond the power of > >> humans or computers. You want to identify that something's the same > >> file, without tracking the change or having any identifiable tag. > >> > >> That's a fundamentally impossible task. > > > > No, it is difficult but not impossible. > > It just cannot be done by tagging the file by: > > > > 1. filename > > 2. filepath > > 3. hash (math algorithm producing a string based on the file's contents) > > > > We need another way to identify the file WITHOUT using the above > attributes. > > This is a very old problem (still unsolved I believe): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus > > > Oscar > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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