hashing a dictionary using sha256

Question

While executing this line of code:

DIGEST = sha256(json.dumps(CONFIG.__dict__, sort_keys=True)).hexdigest()

I got this error:

Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing

Later I changed it to:

DIGEST = sha256(json.dumps(CONFIG.__dict__, encoding='utf-8', sort_keys=True)).hexdigest()

But doing that couldn't fix the error. Any solution for the same could be of great help.

Answer 1

DIGEST = sha256(json.dumps(CONFIG.__dict__,sort_keys=True).encode('utf8')).hexdigest()

should work.