"Arash Partow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've ported various hash functions to python if anyone is interested:
Are these useful for any particular interoperability purposes?
Otherwise I'd say just one such hash is plenty, or maybe don't even
bother, since Python's built-in dicts are sufficient for most
applications that call for hashing, and the cryptographic hashes are
available for when you really care about uniformity of the hash
output.
> for i in range(len(key)):
> hash = hash * a + ord(key[i])
> a = a * b
As a stylistic issue, I'd write this:
for c in key:
hash = hash * a + ord(c)
a *= b
and similarly for the other similar loops.
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