A fork of Python wrapper around CityHash <https://github.com/google/cityhash>__
with downgraded version of algorithm. This fork used as 3-rd party library
for hashing data in ClickHouse protocol. Unfortunately ClickHouse
server comes with built-in old version of this algorithm.
Please use original python-cityhash <https://github.com/escherba/python-cityhash>_
package for other purposes.
To use this package in your program, simply type
.. code-block:: bash
pip install clickhouse-cityhash
For other fast non-cryptographic hashing implementations available as Python
extensions, see MetroHash <https://github.com/escherba/python-metrohash>__
and xxh <https://github.com/lebedov/xxh>__.
The Python bindings were originally written by Alexander [Amper] Marshalov and were subsequently edited for more speed/versatility and packaged for PyPI by Eugene Scherba. The original CityHash algorithm is by Google.
This software is licensed under the MIT License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license>_. See the included LICENSE
file for more information.
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Python-bindings for CityHash, a fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
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