If you need to get the SHA256 sum of a string using Python, then you can do the following.
Step 1
Firstly, we need to use the hashlib module:
import hashlib
Step 2
Now make sure that the input string is encoded correctly.
your_input = "this is your input string".encode('utf-8')
Step 3
Finally use the sha256 function of the hashlib module, and get the hexdigest() value from it:
hashlib.sha256(your_input).hexdigest()
Putting it all together
import hashlib
your_input = "this is your input string".encode('utf-8')
hashed = hashlib.sha256(your_input).hexdigest()
print(hashed)
# --> f7dc376447dcd13fdd6cb2aa20a2327bed1f8a1f3420d52c6fdb55b2b94d9b8e
