On Thursday, December 1, 2011 11:52:46 PM UTC+8, Dave Angel wrote: > On 12/01/2011 10:35 AM, 88888 Dihedral wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:47:13 PM UTC+8, Peter Otten wrote: > >> 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? > >> You mean a typical python hash value which would be /likely/ to differ for > >> different lists and /guaranteed/ to be equal for equal lists is not good > >> enough? Because that would be easy: > >> > >> args = sys.argv[1:] > >> hash(tuple(sorted(args))) # consider duplicate args > > I knew a hash can replace a bi-directional linked list. > > The value can be a multi-field string to be parsed for further actions. > > Is this what you are asking? > A hash is a number, so I don't see how it can replace any kind of linked > list. Perhaps you're thinking of some other language. > > -- > > DaveA
A long number of a varied length allowed but can interpreted by the programmer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list