Martin v. Löwis napisał(a): > > Or hexdigest_string.decode('hex') > > I would advise against this, as it's incompatible with Python 3.
I didn't know that, you actually made me look it up in the Python 3 FAQ. And yes, the difference is that decode will return bytes type instead of a string. This may or may not be a problem (bytes type is supposed to be immutable, so it can be used in many places where a string is used now, ex. as a dict key). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list