Form sha1.hexdigest to sha1.digest

[LMZ]

How can convert string from sha1.hexdigest() to string that is the
same, like from sha1.digest()

thanks for your help!

Alexandr.

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

How can convert string from sha1.hexdigest() to string that is the

same, like from sha1.digest()

Use binascii.unhexlify.

HTH,
Martin

 

[marek.rocki]

Martin v. Löwis napisa³(a):

Use binascii.unhexlify.

HTH,
Martin

Or hexdigest_string.decode('hex')

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

Or hexdigest_string.decode('hex')

I would advise against this, as it's incompatible with Python 3.

Regards,
Martin

 

[marek.rocki]

Martin v. Löwis napisa³(a):

I would advise against this, as it's incompatible with Python 3.

I didn't know that, you actually made me look it up in the Python 3
FAQ. And yes, the difference is that decode will return bytes type
instead of a string. This may or may not be a problem (bytes type is
supposed to be immutable, so it can be used in many places where a
string is used now, ex. as a dict key).

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

Or hexdigest_string.decode('hex')

I didn't know that, you actually made me look it up in the Python 3
FAQ. And yes, the difference is that decode will return bytes type
instead of a string.

No. The decode method on string objects is removed, you can only
*encode* strings, but not decode them.

This may or may not be a problem

The problem is this:

py> hashlib.sha1(b"Hallo").hexdigest().decode("hex")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Regards,
Martin