Unable to get a sha256 hash of a string [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to get a hash of a string:

hs = hashlib.sha256(get_some_string()).hexdigest()

...but I get an error:

TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing

Answer 1

Use utf-8 encoding:

hs = hashlib.sha256(get_some_string().encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

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