
.. code-block:: bash

   $ pip install --no-binary xxhash xxhash

Prerequisites
++++++++++++++

On Debian/Ubuntu:

.. code-block:: bash

   $ apt-get install python-dev gcc

On CentOS/Fedora:

.. code-block:: bash

   $ yum install python-devel gcc redhat-rpm-config

Linking to libxxhash.so

By default python-xxhash will use bundled xxHash, we can change this by specifying ENV var XXHASH_LINK_SO:

.. code-block:: bash

$ XXHASH_LINK_SO=1 pip install --no-binary xxhash xxhash

Usage

Module version and its backend xxHash library version can be retrieved using the module properties VERSION AND XXHASH_VERSION respectively.

.. code-block:: python

>>> import xxhash
>>> xxhash.VERSION
'2.0.0'
>>> xxhash.XXHASH_VERSION
'0.8.0'

This module is hashlib-compliant, which means you can use it in the same way as hashlib.md5.

| update() -- update the current digest with an additional string
| digest() -- return the current digest value
| hexdigest() -- return the current digest as a string of hexadecimal digits
| intdigest() -- return the current digest as an integer
| copy() -- return a copy of the current xxhash object
| reset() -- reset state

md5 digest returns bytes, but the original xxh32 and xxh64 C APIs return integers. While this module is made hashlib-compliant, intdigest() is also provided to get the integer digest.

Constructors for hash algorithms provided by this module are xxh32() and xxh64().

For example, to obtain the digest of the byte string b'Nobody inspects the spammish repetition':

.. code-block:: python

>>> import xxhash
>>> x = xxhash.xxh32()
>>> x.update(b'Nobody inspects')
>>> x.update(b' the spammish repetition')
>>> x.digest()
b'\xe2);/'
>>> x.digest_size
4
>>> x.block_size
16

More condensed:

.. code-block:: python

>>> xxhash.xxh32(b'Nobody inspects the spammish repetition').hexdigest()
'e2293b2f'
>>> xxhash.xxh32(b'Nobody inspects the spammish repetition').digest() == x.digest()
True

An optional seed (default is 0) can be used to alter the result predictably:

.. code-block:: python

>>> import xxhash
>>> xxhash.xxh64('xxhash').hexdigest()
'32dd38952c4bc720'
>>> xxhash.xxh64('xxhash', seed=20141025).hexdigest()
'b559b98d844e0635'
>>> x = xxhash.xxh64(seed=20141025)
>>> x.update('xxhash')
>>> x.hexdigest()
'b559b98d844e0635'
>>> x.intdigest()
13067679811253438005

Be careful that xxh32 takes an unsigned 32-bit integer as seed, while xxh64 takes an unsigned 64-bit integer. Although unsigned integer overflow is defined behavior, it's better not to make it happen:

.. code-block:: python

>>> xxhash.xxh32('I want an unsigned 32-bit seed!', seed=0).hexdigest()
'f7a35af8'
>>> xxhash.xxh32('I want an unsigned 32-bit seed!', seed=2**32).hexdigest()
'f7a35af8'
>>> xxhash.xxh32('I want an unsigned 32-bit seed!', seed=1).hexdigest()
'd8d4b4ba'
>>> xxhash.xxh32('I want an unsigned 32-bit seed!', seed=2**32+1).hexdigest()
'd8d4b4ba'
>>>
>>> xxhash.xxh64('I want an unsigned 64-bit seed!', seed=0).hexdigest()
'd4cb0a70a2b8c7c1'
>>> xxhash.xxh64('I want an unsigned 64-bit seed!', seed=2**64).hexdigest()
'd4cb0a70a2b8c7c1'
>>> xxhash.xxh64('I want an unsigned 64-bit seed!', seed=1).hexdigest()
'ce5087f12470d961'
>>> xxhash.xxh64('I want an unsigned 64-bit seed!', seed=2**64+1).hexdigest()
'ce5087f12470d961'

digest() returns bytes of the big-endian representation of the integer digest:

.. code-block:: python

>>> import xxhash
>>> h = xxhash.xxh64()
>>> h.digest()
b'\xefF\xdb7Q\xd8\xe9\x99'
>>> h.intdigest().to_bytes(8, 'big')
b'\xefF\xdb7Q\xd8\xe9\x99'
>>> h.hexdigest()
'ef46db3751d8e999'
>>> format(h.intdigest(), '016x')
'ef46db3751d8e999'
>>> h.intdigest()
17241709254077376921
>>> int(h.hexdigest(), 16)
17241709254077376921

Besides xxh32/xxh64 mentioned above, oneshot functions are also provided, so we can avoid allocating XXH32/64 state on heap:

| xxh32_digest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh32_intdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh32_hexdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh64_digest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh64_intdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh64_hexdigest(bytes, seed=0)

.. code-block:: python

>>> import xxhash
>>> xxhash.xxh64('a').digest() == xxhash.xxh64_digest('a')
True
>>> xxhash.xxh64('a').intdigest() == xxhash.xxh64_intdigest('a')
True
>>> xxhash.xxh64('a').hexdigest() == xxhash.xxh64_hexdigest('a')
True
>>> xxhash.xxh64_hexdigest('xxhash', seed=20141025)
'b559b98d844e0635'
>>> xxhash.xxh64_intdigest('xxhash', seed=20141025)
13067679811253438005L
>>> xxhash.xxh64_digest('xxhash', seed=20141025)
'\xb5Y\xb9\x8d\x84N\x065'

.. code-block:: python

In [1]: import xxhash

In [2]: %timeit xxhash.xxh64_hexdigest('xxhash')
268 ns ± 24.1 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

In [3]: %timeit xxhash.xxh64('xxhash').hexdigest()
416 ns ± 17.3 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

XXH3 hashes are available since v2.0.0 (xxHash v0.8.0), they are:

Streaming classes:

| xxh3_64
| xxh3_128

Oneshot functions:

| xxh3_64_digest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh3_64_intdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh3_64_hexdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh3_128_digest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh3_128_intdigest(bytes, seed=0)
| xxh3_128_hexdigest(bytes, seed=0)

And aliases:

| xxh128 = xxh3_128
| xxh128_digest = xxh3_128_digest
| xxh128_intdigest = xxh3_128_intdigest
| xxh128_hexdigest = xxh3_128_hexdigest

Caveats

SEED OVERFLOW


xxh32 takes an unsigned 32-bit integer as seed, and xxh64 takes
an unsigned 64-bit integer as seed. Make sure that the seed is greater than
or equal to ``0``.

ENDIANNESS
~~~~~~~~~~~

As of python-xxhash 0.3.0, ``digest()`` returns bytes of the
**big-endian** representation of the integer digest. It used
to be little-endian.

DONT USE XXHASH IN HMAC

Though you can use xxhash as an HMAC_ hash function, but it's highly recommended not to.

xxhash is NOT a cryptographic hash function, it is a non-cryptographic hash algorithm aimed at speed and quality. Do not put xxhash in any position where cryptographic hash functions are required.

Copyright and License

Licensed under BSD 2-Clause License <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause>_

CHANGELOG

v3.5.0 2024-08-17


- Build wheels for Python 3.13

v3.4.1 2023-10-05

Build wheels for Python 3.12
Remove setuptools_scm

v3.4.0 2023-10-05


*Yanked* due to wheels building problem.

v3.3.0 2023-07-29

Upgrade xxHash to v0.8.2
Drop support for Python 3.6

v3.2.0 2022-12-28


This is the last version to support Python 3.6

- Build Python 3.11 wheels.
- Remove setup.py test_suites, call unittest directly

v3.1.0 2022-10-19

Type annotations.
Enabled muslinux wheels building.

v3.0.0 2022-02-25


- New set `algorithms_available` lists all implemented algorithms in `xxhash`
  package.
- Upgrade xxHash to v0.8.1.
- Drop support for EOL Python versions, require python >= 3.6 from now on.
- Migrate to github actions and build arm64 wheels for macOS.
- Always release GIL.


v2.0.2 2021-04-15

Fix Travis CI OSX dpl python2.7 get-pip.py error

v2.0.1 2021-04-15


- Only to trigger Python 3.9 wheels building.

v2.0.0 2020-08-03

Require xxHash version >= v0.8.0
Upgrade xxHash to v0.8.0
XXH3 hashes: xxh3_64, xxh3_128, and their oneshot functions

v1.4.4 2020-06-20


- Upgrade xxHash to v0.7.3
- Stop using PEP393 deprecated APIs
- Use XXH(32|64)_canonicalFromHash to replace u2bytes and ull2bytes

v1.4.3 2019-11-12

Upgrade xxHash to v0.7.2
Python 3.8 wheels

v1.4.2 2019-10-13


- Fixed: setup.py fails when reading README.rst and the default encoding is not UTF-8

v1.4.1 2019-08-27

Fixed: xxh3.h in missing from source tarball

v1.4.0 2019-08-25


- Upgrade xxHash to v0.7.1

v1.3.0 2018-10-21

Wheels are now built automatically
Split CFFI variant into a separate package ifduyue/python-xxhash-cffi <https://github.com/ifduyue/python-xxhash-cffi>_

v1.2.0 2018-07-13


- Add oneshot functions xxh{32,64}_{,int,hex}digest

v1.1.0 2018-07-05

Allow input larger than 2GB
Release the GIL on sufficiently large input
Drop support for Python 3.2

v1.0.1 2017-03-02


- Free state actively, instead of delegating it to ffi.gc

v1.0.0 2017-02-10

Fixed copy() segfault
Added CFFI variant

v0.6.3 2017-02-10


- Fixed copy() segfault

v0.6.2 2017-02-10

Upgrade xxHash to v0.6.2

v0.6.1 2016-06-26


- Upgrade xxHash to v0.6.1

v0.5.0 2016-03-02

Upgrade xxHash to v0.5.0

v0.4.3 2015-08-21


- Upgrade xxHash to r42

v0.4.1 2015-08-16

Upgrade xxHash to r41

v0.4.0 2015-08-05


- Added method reset
- Upgrade xxHash to r40

v0.3.2 2015-01-27

Fixed some typos in docstrings

v0.3.1 2015-01-24


- Upgrade xxHash to r39

v0.3.0 2014-11-11

Change digest() from little-endian representation to big-endian representation of the integer digest. This change breaks compatibility (digest() results are different).

v0.2.0 2014-10-25


- Make this package hashlib-compliant

v0.1.3 2014-10-23

Update xxHash to r37

v0.1.2 2014-10-19


- Improve: Check XXHnn_init() return value.
- Update xxHash to r36

v0.1.1 2014-08-07

Improve: Can now be built with Visual C++ Compiler.

v0.1.0 2014-08-05


- New: XXH32 and XXH64 type, which support partially update.
- Fix: build under Python 3.4

v0.0.2 2014-08-03

NEW: Support Python 3

v0.0.1 2014-07-30


- NEW: xxh32 and xxh64

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