Python, checksum of a dict
I'm thinking to create a checksum of a dict to know if it was modified or not For the moment i have that: >>> import hashlib >>> import pickle >>> d = {'k': 'v', 'k2': 'v2'} >>> z = pickle.dumps(d) >>> hashlib.md5(z).hexdigest() '8521955ed8c63c554744058c9888dc30' Perhaps a better solution exists? Note: I want to create an unique id of a dict to create a good Etag. EDIT: I can have abstract data in the dict. Something like this: reduce(lambda x,y : x^y, [hash(item) for item in d.items()]) Take the hash of each (key, value) tuple in the dict and XOR them alltogether. @katrielalex If the dict