hashlib.md5 does not appear to like unicode, UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa6' in position 1650: ordinal not in range(128)
After googling, I've found BDFL and others on Py3K talking about the problems of hashing non-bytes (i.e. buffers) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09824.html So what is the canonical way to hash unicode? * convert unicode to local * hash in current local ??? but what if local has ordinals outside of 128? Is this just a problem for md5 hashes that I would not encounter using a different method? i.e. Should I just use the built-in hash function? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list