On 01/22/2013 07:02 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
#
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# produce a hash string based on html page's filepath and convert it to an
integer, that will then be used to identify the page itself
#
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pin = int( hashlib.md5( htmlpage ) )
This fails. why?
htmlpage = a string respresenting the absolute path of the requested .html file
hashlib.md5( htmlpage ) = conversion of the above string to a hashed string
int( hashlib.md5( htmlpage ) ) = conversion of the above hashed string to a
number
Why this fails?
Is your copy/paste broken? It could be useful to actually show in what
way it "fails."
The md5 method produces a "HASH object", not a string. So int() cannot
process that.
To produce a digest string from the hash object, you want to call
hexdigest() method. The result of that is a hex literal string. So you
cannot just call int() on it, since that defaults to decimal.
To convert a hex string to an int, you need the extra parameter of int:
int(mystring, 16)
Now, see if you can piece it together.
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