hash unicode string in python

Question

I try to hash some unicode strings:

hashlib.sha1(s).hexdigest()
UnicodeEncodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t encode characters in position 0-81: 
ordinal not in ra         


        

Answer 1

Use encoding format utf-8, Try this easy way,

>>> import hashlib
>>> hashlib.sha256(str(random.getrandbits(256)).encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
'cd183a211ed2434eac4f31b317c573c50e6c24e3a28b82ddcb0bf8bedf387a9f'