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efore hashing
In [5]: to_hash_str= 'abc'
...: sha256 = hashlib.sha256()
...: sha256.update(to_hash_str.encode())
...: sha256.hexdigest()
...:
...:
Out[5]: 'ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad'