Best way to convert sequence of bytes to long integer

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 01/20/10 22:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> I'm writing a module that handles, I won't call it encryption,
> obfuscation using classical cryptographic algorithms. One of the
> functions needs a deterministic but unpredictable integer generated from
> a human-generated password or passphrase, so I'm using:
>
> hashlib.md5(key).digest()
>
> to get a string of bytes, then converting it to an int.
>
> int.from_bytes would be perfect for me, but in the meantime I'm using
> Paul Rubin's trick of int(s.encode("hex"), 16).
>

Sorry, but this doesn't work for me (in Python 3.2a0)
since hashlib.md5(key).digest() returns a byte string
which has no .encode method.

Just my 5 cents,
Helmut.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany