Please don't top post. I had to fix that below. >>> Any other thoughts or considerations are appreciated. >> You could try and create a md5 sum of your strings and use that as key. It >> _should_ be good enough, but I'm no crypto expert so take that with a grain >> of salt.
> It should be enough but it might be a little slower than hash(string). hash alone won't be sufficient, as it is guaranteed to have to much collisions. The OP already figured that out, btw. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
