>>> Or hexdigest_string.decode('hex')
>> 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.
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
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