unicode and hashlib

[Scott David Daniels]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
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> If you now, and for all time, decide that the only source you will take 
> is cp1252, perhaps you should decode to cp1252 before hashing.

Of course my dyslexia sticks out here as I get encode and decode exactly
backwards -- Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch has it right.

Characters (a concept) are "encoded" to a byte format (representation).
Bytes (a precise representation) are "decoded" to characters (a format
with semantics).

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org