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AngelRaposo solution in Clear category for Simple Hashlib by AngelRaposo
# migrated from python 2.7
import hashlib
def checkio(hash_string, algorithm):
"""
This function receives a string to be hashed and the algorithm to use.
"""
# Convert the algorithm string to a function from hashlib module
function = getattr(hashlib, algorithm)
# Hash the string and return the hexadecimal version of the hashed string
return function(hash_string.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
if __name__ == '__main__':
#These "asserts" using only for self-checking and not necessary for auto-testing
assert checkio('welcome', 'md5') == '40be4e59b9a2a2b5dffb918c0e86b3d7'
assert checkio('happy spam', 'sha224') == '6e9dc3e01d57f1598c2b40ce59fc3527e698c77b15d0840ae96a8b5e'
June 19, 2014