order independent hash?

[Dave Angel]

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.

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DaveA