print question - character representation

[Brian Gough]

Ajay <abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au> writes:

> i am calculating a digest of some data (using hmac) and printing it to a
> cookie. the problem is the hash may contain special characters. when these
> are printed they get converted to \<number> representation.
> later when i receive the cookie i recalculate the hmac and do a comparison
> which returns false because of the conversion when writing to a cookie
> q - how do i stop the conversion from happening?

Use the hexdigest() method instead of digest() to avoid non-printable
characters.  See the hmac library documentation for details.

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Brian Gough

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