Message78480
The hashlib documentation has incorrect examples showing the use of the
hexdigest() method:
>>> hashlib.sha224(b"Nobody inspects the spammish
repetition").hexdigest()
b'a4337bc45a8fc544c03f52dc550cd6e1e87021bc896588bd79e901e2'
>>>
and this one
>>> h = hashlib.new('ripemd160')
>>> h.update(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition")
>>> h.hexdigest()
b'cc4a5ce1b3df48aec5d22d1f16b894a0b894eccc'
>>>
However, the result of h.hexdigest() is of type 'str', not bytes. Actual
output:
>>> h.hexdigest()
'cc4a5ce1b3df48aec5d22d1f16b894a0b894eccc'
>>>
Sure would be nice if that string of hex digits was easy to decode back
into a binary string.
>>> import binascii
>>> b = binascii.a2b_hex(h.hexdigest())
>>>
Hmmm. So *SOME* of the functions in binascii do accept Unicode strings.
See Issue 4470 :-). |
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2008-12-29 19:54:14 | beazley | set | recipients:
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2008-12-29 19:54:13 | beazley | set | messageid: <1230580453.49.0.84124540876.issue4771@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2008-12-29 19:54:12 | beazley | link | issue4771 messages |
2008-12-29 19:54:12 | beazley | create | |
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