I am new to coding and have ran into a problem trying to encode a string. Is (a) now considered to be encoded? Second question: When I run the same code above in a script I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:/Users/User/Desktop/Logger/Encoding practice.py”, line 3, in a.update(‘hi’) TypeError: Unicode-objects must be … Read more
Yes, it is a hash mapping or hash table. You can read a description of python’s dict implementation, as written by Tim Peters, here. That’s why you can’t use something ‘not hashable’ as a dict key, like a list: You can read more about hash tables or check how it has been implemented in python and why it is implemented that … Read more
No. MD5 is not encryption (though it may be used as part of some encryption algorithms), it is a one way hash function. Much of the original data is actually “lost” as part of the transformation. Think about this: An MD5 is always 128 bits long. That means that there are 2128 possible MD5 hashes. … Read more