John Marshall wrote: > I was actually interested in the mathematical/probability > side rather than the empirical w/r to the current > hash function in python. Although I imagine I could do > a brute force test for x-character strings.
Hah. No. At least on the version I have handy (Py 2.2.3 on Itanium2), hash returns a 64-bit value. Brute-forcing that in any reasonable length of time is rather impossible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
