Josiah Carlson wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: >> Is the any way to get an efficient 16bit hash in python? > > hash(obj)&65535 > > - Josiah yes I thought of that, but cannot figure out if the internal hash really distributes the bits evenly. Particularly since it seems to treat integers etc as special cases
>>> hash(1)
1
>>> hash(2)
2
>>> hash('1234')
1723328704
>>>
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