hash()

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

> [John Marshall]
> > For strings of > 1 character, what are the chances
> > that hash(st) and hash(st[::-1]) would return the
> > same value?
> 
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:11:14PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> First, if `st` is a string, `st[::-1]` is a list.  Do you really mean
> to compare string hashes with list hashes here?  I'm going to assume
> not.

It is?

>>> st = "french frogs"
>>> st[::-1]
'sgorf hcnerf'

(Python 2.3)

Jeff
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