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uhashring implements consistent hashing in pure Python.

Consistent hashing is mostly used on distributed systems/caches/databases as
this avoid the total reshuffling of your key-node mappings when adding or
removing a node in your ring (called continuum on libketama).

WWW: https://github.com/ultrabug/uhashring