Merge branch 'develop' into feat/short

freqtrade/misc.py

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 Various tool function for Freqtrade and scripts
 """
 import gzip
+import hashlib
 import logging
 import re
+from copy import deepcopy
 from datetime import datetime
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Iterator, List
+from typing import Any, Iterator, List, Union
 from typing.io import IO
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
@@ -228,3 +230,34 @@ def parse_db_uri_for_logging(uri: str):
         return uri
     pwd = parsed_db_uri.netloc.split(':')[1].split('@')[0]
     return parsed_db_uri.geturl().replace(f':{pwd}@', ':*****@')
+
+
+def get_strategy_run_id(strategy) -> str:
+    """
+    Generate unique identification hash for a backtest run. Identical config and strategy file will
+    always return an identical hash.
+    :param strategy: strategy object.
+    :return: hex string id.
+    """
+    digest = hashlib.sha1()
+    config = deepcopy(strategy.config)
+
+    # Options that have no impact on results of individual backtest.
+    not_important_keys = ('strategy_list', 'original_config', 'telegram', 'api_server')
+    for k in not_important_keys:
+        if k in config:
+            del config[k]
+
+    # Explicitly allow NaN values (e.g. max_open_trades).
+    # as it does not matter for getting the hash.
+    digest.update(rapidjson.dumps(config, default=str,
+                                  number_mode=rapidjson.NM_NAN).encode('utf-8'))
+    with open(strategy.__file__, 'rb') as fp:
+        digest.update(fp.read())
+    return digest.hexdigest().lower()
+
+
+def get_backtest_metadata_filename(filename: Union[Path, str]) -> Path:
+    """Return metadata filename for specified backtest results file."""
+    filename = Path(filename)
+    return filename.parent / Path(f'{filename.stem}.meta{filename.suffix}')