whylogs_container.util.string_util

Functions

encode_strings(col_names)

Encode a list of strings as a number by hashing each one and then adding them together.

whylogs_container.util.string_util.encode_strings(col_names: List[str]) → int

Encode a list of strings as a number by hashing each one and then adding them together. This is useful for generating group keys based on string lists that don’t care about order and have reasonably low collision rate without having to sort everything.