On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 2:59 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
> Convert the string to bytes. If the string is ASCII, you can simply use the
> bytes() function. If not, you may need to specify an encoding.
Thanks Dave, this is what I needed, I looked in the function refer
On 2:59 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
Luke:
On python3.1 I get the following error using your (untested) two line snippet:
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
If I add the b back into the mix, I get a hash with no error messages.
But I still can't quite figure out how to get th
On 2:59 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
Everybody knows you don't store plain text passwords in a database,
you store hashes instead
consider:
userpass = getpass.getpass("User password? ")
encuserpass = hashlib.md5()
encuserpass.update(userpass)
del userpass
Now the documentation clearly states th
Ah, it works differently on py3 i guess. Py2 was pretty lax with string
handling. I would suggest researching Unicode encode functions rather than
looking at the hashlib for info. There is probably a string.encode or something
like that.
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Luke:
On python3.1 I get the following error using your (untested) two line snippet:
TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing
If I add the b back into the mix, I get a hash with no error messages.
But I still can't quite figure out how to get the variable contents
into the hash
This is how I use it (untested)
Import hashlib
Print hashlib.md5("somestr").hexdigest()
Works fine without using binary string.
On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
> Everybody knows you don't store plain text passwords in a database,
> you store hashes instead
>
> consider:
>
> us
