Get the same hash value for a Pandas DataFrame each time

As of Pandas 0.20.1, you can use the little known (and poorly documented) hash_pandas_object (source code) which was recently made public in pandas.util. It returns one hash value for reach row of the dataframe (and works on series etc. too)

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

np.random.seed(42)
arr = np.random.choice(['foo', 'bar', 42], size=(3,4))
df = pd.DataFrame(arr)

print(df)
#      0    1   2    3
# 0   42  foo  42   42
# 1  foo  foo  42  bar
# 2   42   42  42   42

from pandas.util import hash_pandas_object
h = hash_pandas_object(df)

print(h)
# 0     5559921529589760079
# 1    16825627446701693880
# 2     7171023939017372657
# dtype: uint64

You can always do hash_pandas_object(df).sum() if you want an overall hash of all rows.