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

You hash bytes, not strings. So you gotta know what bytes you really want to hash, for example an utf8 memory representation of the string or a utf16 memory representation of the string, etc.