Every Python developer becomes familiar with the four built-in collection data types: - List: An ordered, mutable collection that allows duplicate elements. Defined with square brackets, e.g., [1, 2, ...

hash = hashlib.sha256(salt_buf + password) # the salt is prepended to the password as is (not as hex-bytes but as ASCII) for i in range(10000): hash = hashlib.sha256(hash.digest()) return ...