On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote: >> I don't know that there is, at least not with hashlib. You might be >> able to use digest() followed by the struct module, but it's no less >> convoluted. It's the same in several other languages' hashing >> functions; the result is a string, not an integer. > > Well, J*v* returns a byte array...
I counted byte arrays along with strings. Whether it's notionally a string of bytes or characters makes no difference - it's not an integer. > I dunno why language designers don't make it easy to get a single big > number directly out of these things. It's probably because these sorts of hashes are usually done on large puddles of memory, to create a smaller puddle of memory. How you interpret the resulting puddle is up to you; maybe you want to think of it as a number, maybe as a string, but really it's just a sequence of bytes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
