how to use SHA256 in python? code example

Example 1: python hmac sha256

# python 2
import hmac
import hashlib

nonce = 1234
customer_id = 123232
api_key = 2342342348273482374343434
API_SECRET = 892374928347928347283473

message = '{} {} {}'.format(nonce, customer_id, api_key)
signature = hmac.new(
    str(API_SECRET),
    msg=message,
    digestmod=hashlib.sha256
).hexdigest().upper()

print signature

Example 2: sha 256 python

import hashlib

secret_thing = hashlib.sha256()
# Keep in mind you add on to the already existing string when you .update the same thing.
secret_thing.update(b"hahahahaahhahaa nobody will guess my secret message")

secret_thing.digest_size
secret_thing.block_size