hashlib in one line

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

Am 29.11.2010 14:50, schrieb Thomas Guettler:
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be nice if you could use the hashlib in one line:
>
> hashlib.sha256().update('abc').hexdigest()
>
> Unfortunately update() returns None.
>
> Is there a way to convert a string to the hexdigest of sha256 in one line?
>
>    Thomas
>
>
Like so ?

 >>> hashlib.sha256('abc').hexdigest()
'ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad'