[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will the hash function always generate unique keys?
no. hash() is designed for dictionaries (hash tables), not for use as a cryptographic hash. depending on your application, a bloom filter might be a good enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter (see the links section for a Python implementation) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list