I am trying to read in a file of passwords. Then I am trying to compute the hash for each password and compare it to a hash I already have to determine if I have discovered the password. However the error message I keep getting is "TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing". Here is my code:

from hashlib import sha256 with open('words','r') as f: for line in f: hashedWord = sha256(line.rstrip()).hexdigest() if hashedWord == 'ca52258a43795ab5c89513f9984b8f3d3d0aa61fb7792ecefe8d90010ee39f2': print(line + "is one of the words!") 

Can anyone please help and provide an explanation?