DN598658648

Subject: Re: SHA Hash in python? - DN [1]

Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk> - 17 Mar 2000 - comp.lang.python

 Brian Haskin <haskin@ptway.com> writes:

 > Does anyone know of a python module for the SHA cryptographic hash?

 Um, yes.

 >>> import sha
 >>> r=sha.sha()
 >>> r.update (open("foo").read())
 >>> r.digest()
 'k\227m\272Z\200\022\253]\317\310\330m\232k#\206H\317\270'

 You might need to rebuild to get it; I can't remeber whether it comes
 built by default.

 Cheers,
 Michael

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