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14 changes: 6 additions & 8 deletions Doc/library/hashlib.rst
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Expand Up @@ -91,24 +91,22 @@ library that Python uses on your platform. On most platforms the

Hashlib now uses SHA3 and SHAKE from OpenSSL 1.1.1 and newer.

For example, to obtain the digest of the byte string ``b'Nobody inspects the
spammish repetition'``::
For example, to obtain the digest of the byte string ``b"Nobody inspects the
spammish repetition"``::

>>> import hashlib
>>> m = hashlib.sha256()
>>> m.update(b"Nobody inspects")
>>> m.update(b" the spammish repetition")
>>> m.digest()
b'\x03\x1e\xdd}Ae\x15\x93\xc5\xfe\\\x00o\xa5u+7\xfd\xdf\xf7\xbcN\x84:\xa6\xaf\x0c\x95\x0fK\x94\x06'
>>> m.digest_size
32
>>> m.block_size
64
>>> m.hexdigest()
'031edd7d41651593c5fe5c006fa5752b37fddff7bc4e843aa6af0c950f4b9406'

More condensed:

>>> hashlib.sha224(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition").hexdigest()
'a4337bc45a8fc544c03f52dc550cd6e1e87021bc896588bd79e901e2'
>>> hashlib.sha256(b"Nobody inspects the spammish repetition").hexdigest()
'031edd7d41651593c5fe5c006fa5752b37fddff7bc4e843aa6af0c950f4b9406'

.. function:: new(name[, data], *, usedforsecurity=True)

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