I have a hex and I'm getting the binary representation by doing the following
In [10]: binascii.unhexlify('950ef5cce9c32676ab67998e2245f682624f9abce6bb1392b67204159b82c020')
Out[10]: '\x95\x0e\xf5\xcc\xe9\xc3&v\xabg\x99\x8e"E\xf6\x82bO\x9a\xbc\xe6\xbb\x13\x92\xb6r\x04\x15\x9b\x82\xc0 '
Just checking my own sanity I can get back the original value
In [11]: binascii.hexlify('\x95\x0e\xf5\xcc\xe9\xc3&v\xabg\x99\x8e"E\xf6\x82bO\x9a\xbc\xe6\xbb\x13\x92\xb6r\x04\x15\x9b\x82\xc0 ')
Out[11]: '950ef5cce9c32676ab67998e2245f682624f9abce6bb1392b67204159b82c020'
Now I want the sha256 of this binary value
In [12]: hashlib.sha256('\x95\x0e\xf5\xcc\xe9\xc3&v\xabg\x99\x8e"E\xf6\x82bO\x9a\xbc\xe6\xbb\x13\x92\xb6r\x04\x15\x9b\x82\xc0 ').hexdigest()
Out[12]: '74d0ef097a15e1699b2476de3b700e86f54d8d3ec65485382c01dc7984b46f96'
I would expect the sha256 of the hex value, that I originally had, would match the binary sha256. It doesn't.
In [13]: hashlib.sha256('950ef5cce9c32676ab67998e2245f682624f9abce6bb1392b67204159b82c020').hexdigest()
Out[13]: 'cb0c91c3977b3433ce481511103e6454a5b781ec57849187aa0b2fe1b20e8078'
My guess is that sha256 is taking the values as literal string representations and from a string standpoint they're different, but from the hex and binary standpoint they're the same.
Is there a way of telling sha256 to tread values it receives as a binary value or do I have to do that explicitly? I didn't see anything in the docs. Just wondering if there is or if someone knows a way of doing this.
