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 Hashlib
 -------
 ```python
->>> hashlib.md5(b'<str>').hexdigest()
+>>> hashlib.md5(<str>.encode()).hexdigest()
 '33d0eba106da4d3ebca17fcd3f4c3d77'
 ```