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try:
    import cPickle as pickle
except ImportError:
    import pickle

from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.hashcompat import md5_constructor
from django.forms import BooleanField

def security_hash(request, form, *args):
    """
    Calculates a security hash for the given Form instance.

    This creates a list of the form field names/values in a deterministic
    order, pickles the result with the SECRET_KEY setting, then takes an md5
    hash of that.
    """

    data = []
    for bf in form:
        # Get the value from the form data. If the form allows empty or hasn't
        # changed then don't call clean() to avoid trigger validation errors.
        if form.empty_permitted and not form.has_changed():
            value = bf.data or ''
        else:
            value = bf.field.clean(bf.data) or ''
        if isinstance(value, basestring):
            value = value.strip()
        data.append((bf.name, value))
        
    data.extend(args)
    data.append(settings.SECRET_KEY)

    # Use HIGHEST_PROTOCOL because it's the most efficient. It requires
    # Python 2.3, but Django requires 2.4 anyway, so that's OK.
    pickled = pickle.dumps(data, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)

    return md5_constructor(pickled).hexdigest()