py-meowhash is a simple python binding for cmuratori/meow_hash, an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash function. Meant to act as a drop in replacement for any hashlib hashing algorithm.

NOTE: meow_hash, and by proxy py-meowhash are considered experimental or alpha quality software and should be used as such.

Can be used as a drop in replacement for hashlib algorithms:

hash = meowhash.new()
hash.update(b'hello world')
d = hash.digest()
h = hash.hexdigest()
hash2 = hash.copy()

# Available attributes
hash.name
hash.digest_size
hash.hash_size

This library currently is not portable and requires AVX instruction support on the local machine to run properly. The library does not check for this support as of right now and may segfault on calling

Please check the meow_hash issue tracker for for other issues that one may encounter.