Source code for threeML.utils.unique_deterministic_tag

import hashlib




def get_unique_deterministic_tag(string):
    """Return a hex string with a one to one correspondence with the given
    string.

    :param string: a string
    :return: a hex unique digest
    """

    try:
        return hashlib.md5(string.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()

    except AttributeError:
        # onyl instance when ther above will fail is when string is not a str

        return hashlib.md5(string).hexdigest()