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.





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