import hashlib def geohash(latitude, longitude, datedow): '''Compute geohash() in http://xkcd.com/426/
>>> geohash(37.421542, -122.085589, b'2005-05-26-10458.68') 37.857713 -122.544543 ''' h = hashlib.md5(datedow).hexdigest() p, q = [('%f' % float.fromhex('0.' + x)) for x in (h[:16], h [16:32])] print('%d%s %d%s' % (latitude, p[1:], longitude, q[1:])) if __name__ == '__main__': import doctest doctest.testmod() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list