Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
> Steven, my requirement calls for same hash on multiple machines. > Python's hash (for strings) is keyed with a random value. Ah, of course it does, I forgot about that. The only problem with exposing siphash is that we are exposing a private implementation detail (the specific hash function used) as a public interface. That means that we'd need to keep siphash forever, even if we want to use a different hash function in the future. Now maybe we're willing to do that, perhaps exposing it through the hashlib module, with no guarantee that it is related in any way to what hash() calls. But I think now we're moving in Python-Ideas mailing list territory, and as Benjamin points out, there is a third-party library. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35600> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
