On 11/30/2011 01:32 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > I like to hash a list of words (actually, the command line args of my > program) > in such a way that different words will create different hash, but not > sensitive > to the order of the words. Any ideas? > Do youmean hash like digest like md5sum / sha1 ?
You should sort the words alphabetically, concatenate them with a space or any character, that will NEVER be part of a word and calulate the hash. If words can exist multiple times, then youhad tu uniqufy them (u using a python dict / set) first. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list