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!hashlib --- Secure hashes and message digests — Usage

To obtain the digest of the byte string b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition" >>> import hashlib >>> m = hashlib.sha256() >>> m.update(b"Nobody inspects") >>> m.update(b" the spammish repetition") >>> m.digest() b'\x03\x1e\xdd}Ae\x15\x93\xc5\xfe\\\x00o\xa5u+7\xfd\xdf\xf7\xbcN\x84:\xa6\xaf\x0c\x

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). To obtain the digest of the byte string b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition" >>> import hashlib >>> m = hashlib.sha256() >>> m.update(b"Nobody inspects") >>> m.update(b" the spammish repetition") >>> m.digest() b'\x03\x1e\xdd}Ae\x15\x93\xc5\xfe\\\x00o\xa5u+7\xfd\xdf\xf7\xbcN\x84:\xa6\xaf\x0c\x95\x0fK\x94\x06' >>> m.hexdigest() '031edd7d41651593c5fe5c006fa5752b37fddff7bc4e843aa6af0c950f4b9406' >>> hashlib.sha256(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition").hexdigest() '031edd7d41651593c5fe5c006fa5752b37fddff7bc4e843aa6af0c950f4b9406' Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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