get_digest

pyvo.utils.testing.get_digest(data)

returns a hash-type string for data.

Parameters:

dataa string (in which case the utf-8-encoding will be hashed)

or bytes of which to generate the hash

Returns:

str

a reasonably unique message digest of data. This is currently a piece of the b64 encoding of an md5 digest of data, so don’t even think of doing anything cryptographic with this.