what "type" is an SHA-256 result, and how do I most easily convert it into a string?

[WhiteHare]

The trouble is,

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>>> myHash
b'\x93\x1d\x93HP\xf6,.2\x856\x0e\t\x80\xed\xd9\xaf\rc\xff\xbb9\xf6~\xa8\xca\xea\x9ca\xf2\xbd\xd4'

is not a string, as confirmed by:

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>>> isinstance(myHash, str)
False

but it doesn't seem to behave like a number either:

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>>> print("0x{:02X}".format(myHash))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", in <module>
ValueError: '=' alignment not allowed in string format specifier

Whatever it is, how do I convert it into a string?

I seem to make some progress if I hexlify it:

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>>> import ubinascii
>>> hexHash=ubinascii.hexlify(myHash)
>>> hexHash
b'931d934850f62c2e3285360e0980edd9af0d63ffbb39f67ea8caea9c61f2bdd4'

but that also turns out to be neither a string nor a number, at least if the same tests are applied.

[jickster]

It’s a byteareay


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[Christian Walther]

It’s actually a bytes, not a bytearray (former is immutable, latter is mutable). Try

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type(myHash)

and read https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html to learn about Python’s built-in types.

You didn’t specify what your resulting string should be, but one way of converting your hexHash (a bytes too) into a string is

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str(hexHash, 'ascii')

There is also

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hexHash.decode()

that does the same thing, but it’s not implemented in all ports.

[WhiteHare]

It’s actually a bytes, not a bytearray (former is immutable, latter is mutable). Try

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type(myHash)

and read https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html to learn about Python’s built-in types.

You didn’t specify what your resulting string should be, but one way of converting your hexHash (a bytes too) into a string is

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str(hexHash, 'ascii')

There is also

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hexHash.decode()

that does the same thing, but it’s not implemented in all ports.

Perfect! Thank you for your quick response. You're my hero.

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>>> type(myHash)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> str(hexHash, 'ascii')
'931d934850f62c2e3285360e0980edd9af0d63ffbb39f67ea8caea9c61f2bdd4'
>>> hexHash.decode()
'931d934850f62c2e3285360e0980edd9af0d63ffbb39f67ea8caea9c61f2bdd4'
>>>