Question

I currently have the following code:

from itertools import permutations
import hashlib

def hash_f(x):
    h = hashlib.md5(x)
    return int(h.hexdigest(),base=16)

value = raw_input("Enter a value: ")
possibleValues = 'a'

for p in permutations(possibleValues):
    if hash_f(value) == hash_f(possibleValues):
        print "MATCH"

(The import and use of permutations is a placeholder for now, it’ll be used more once this problem is solved)

What I would like to know is whether or not it’s possible to iterate through a list and replace its value with the hashed form of that value. Using my current hash_f(x) function doesn’t work with lists, which is the problem here.

Thanks for advance for any help, and let me know if you need more information!

Answer 1

I’m not understanding what your snippet is supposed to do, but your question seems like it could be answered with a list comprehension.

from hashlib import md5

input_list = ['a','b','c','d','e']

hashed_list = [int(md5(x).hexdigest(), base=16) for x in input_list]

# Do whatever you wanted to do with the list of hashes....