On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > What i want to do, is to associate a number to an html page's absolute path > for to be able to use that number for my database relations instead of the > BIG absolute path string. > > so to get an integer out of a string i would just have to type: > > pin = int( htmlpage ) > > But would that be unique?
The absolute path probably isn't that big. Just use it. Any form of hashing will give you a chance of a collision. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
