Creates a hash of the provided data, and returns a string of the hash.
maci.createhash -> str
Basic Example of hashing data using the default positional parameter
hashed_data = maci.createhash(data)
In this example, we simply input the data desired to hash using the createhash function and pass the data as an argument to the function, and assign the returned hashed data to a variable.
This function accepts simple or specific data type structures. Strings or bytes for example are some of the simple ones, but see data_to_hash parameter below to see other options.
parameters & arguments
Describes all parameter functionality and accepted data types
data_to_hash: str | bytes | int | list[int] | tuple[int] | set[int] | range | bool
First and only required positional argument. Accepts strings, bytes, integers, list of integers, tuple of integers, set of integers, range objects, and booleans
Use this parameter to input the data to get hashed.
Note: the current selection of data allowed to get hashed is related to the built-in bytes function.
Use this parameter to set the desired codec of the data if needed. The default uses a common industry standard, so you don't have to use this, but you can if the data needs to be written with a specific codec.
