Why can't got the top k ? about datasketch

[ekzhu]

Thanks for raising the issue. I just fixed it in 1.2.1.

For your question. MinHash supports bytes as input. So as long as you can convert the object (i.e., integers, strings, floats, lists) into bytes, it works with MinHash. For example:

# For a set of floats, e.g. {1.3, 123.4, 32.9, 3.1415926, ...}
minhash.update(struct.pack("f", 3.1415926))

# EVERY ELEMENT in your input set is a LIST of float
# e.g. {[1.34, 1.3, 343.0, 123.9], [2.3, 23.2, 86.8], ...}
minhash.update(struct.pack("4f", *[1.34, 1.3, 343.0, 123.9]))