HLTUtils Namespace Reference

Functions
def	string2hash (string)

Function Documentation

string2hash()

def HLTUtils.string2hash

(

string

)

Hashes a string using the HLT's HLTUtils::string2hash hashing function. Python implementation. 

Definition at line 5 of file HLTUtils.py.

def string2hash(string):
  """Hashes a string using the HLT's HLTUtils::string2hash hashing function. Python implementation. """
  hash = 0xd2d84a61
  mask = 0xffffffff
  for character in reversed(string):
    hash ^= (( (((hash >> 5) & mask) + ord(character)) & mask) + ((hash << 7) & mask)) & mask
  for character in string:
    hash ^= (( (((hash >> 5) & mask) + ord(character)) & mask) + ((hash << 7) & mask)) & mask
  return hash