[Zope] Generating unique keys

Oleg Broytmann phd@sun.med.ru
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:11:09 +0400 (MSD)


On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, gtk wrote:
> But I digress.
> 
>     <dtml-var expr="md5er('ggdgfg')">
> 
> ... works just as expected. The output is 8-bit garbage, though -- anyone
> know of a nice unpack or hex conversion function I can call to clean that up
> into a clean string?

   This one was suggested by Guido few years ago:

s = m.digest()
return "%02x"*len(s) % tuple(map(ord, s))

Oleg.
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