I am having trouble using sha256 hash for a variable. Here is my code:
var = 'password'
hashedWord = sha256(b var).hexdigest()
print(hashedWord)
I know it would be easier to do this:
hashedWord = sha256(b'password').hexdigest()
print(hashedWord)
But I don't want to do it that way. Can anyone help?
You need to encode strings to bytes:
var = 'password'
hashedWord = sha256(var.encode('ascii')).hexdigest()
Pick an encoding that works for your text; UTF-8 can encode all of Unicode but that may not produce the hash signature you are looking for; this depends on what other systems think the signature is.
An alternative to Martijn's solution would be to store a byte string in the var variable.
var = b'password'
hashedWord = sha256(var).hexdigest()
print(hashedWord)
