Obfuscate strings in Python

Question

I have a password string that must be passed to a method. Everything works fine but I don\'t feel comfortable storing the password in clear text. Is there a way to obfuscate

Answer 1

You should avoid storing the password in clear in the first place. That's the only "true" solution.

Now, you can encrypt the password easily with the hash module (md5 and similar modules in python 2.5 and below).

import hashlib
mypass = "yo"
a = hashlib.sha256(mypass).digest()