On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 16:26, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > Unless you have a unique immutable identifier that's enforced by > some authority (like a social security number[1]), I don't think there > is a chance to do that reliably in a program (although with enough data, > a heuristic may be good enough). >
Not sure what your footnote was supposed to be, but I'll offer two useful footnotes to that: [1] [a] Though they're not actually immutable either, just less frequently changing [1[ [b] Of course, that has privacy implications. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
