This package provides bindings for the Google's FarmHash.
Code specific to this project is covered by The MIT License
Currently, clone the repo and:
Linux:
$ cd python-farmhash
$ sudo python setup.py Install
Windows: (Sheer hackery. I'm sure there's a way to do this with the new VS but this is working and I don't have hours to work on it. Feel free to submit a pull request)
Install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266 Install msinttypes https://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/ Copy stdint.h to the src directory, and modify the farmhash.cc line 47 reference to use double quotes instead of angle brackets Add "if defined(_MSC_VER) ||" to line 76 of farmhash.cc $ cd python-farmhash $ sudo python setup.py install
The library is pretty simple to use:
import farmhash print farmhash.hash64('abc')
2640714258260161385
For more details, use ipython:
In [1]: import farmhash
In [2]: farmhash.hash64withseed?
Type: builtin_function_or_method
String Form:
Docstring:
Hash function for a string. For convenience, a 64-bit seed is also hashed into the result.
example: print farmhash.hash64withseed('abc', 12345)
13914286602242141520L