On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote: > I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving > deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than > string equality). I guess if it's just for deduplication, though, a > set of byte arrays is as good as a set of int?
Want a better way to do that? Use a set or dict and let Python do the hashing. It'll be every bit as fast as explicit hashing, plus you get the bonus of simplicity. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
