Provide Python bindings

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Provide Python bindings

[pombredanne]

For reference the README commit is 9099074

[jan-wassenberg]

Hi Philippe, we don't yet have Python bindings and I don't have much experience with them, but would be happy to add them if you can send a patch :)

[pombredanne]

@jan-wassenberg Thank you for the swift reply. I will try to give it a shot.... I especially appreciate the fact that this hash is "portable" e.g. as stated the 64 and 128 versions output will not change if I run the same code on the same input on two different machines (at least two AMD or Intel architecture CPUs) which is really awesome and important IMHO

Unrelated: any plan to publish some smhasher results?

[jan-wassenberg]

Sounds good! Thanks, yes, unchanging fingerprint functions are very useful indeed.

smhasher results are posted here: #17

[jan-wassenberg]

FYI the 128 and 256 bit variants are now frozen (after increasing the number of finalization rounds to 6 and 10).

[kpdemetriou]

I've recently published fully-featured CFFI Python bindings for HighwayHash: https://github.com/kpdemetriou/highwayhash-cffi. Perhaps it'd be useful if this package was added to the list in the README.

[jan-wassenberg]

Hey Phil, happy to see your binding, looks good 👍
I've added mention of it to the readme, please let me know if you'd like any changes.

[pombredanne]

@kpdemetriou this is very nice. 🙇‍♂️ Thank you! I wished it would support Python 2 but that's not critical..
I think this ticket is good to close now.