Given a sha256 hash of a str in python:

import hashlibhash = hashlib.sha256('foobar'.encode('utf-8'))

How can the hash be converted to a UUID?

Note: there will obviously be a many-to-one mapping of hexdigest to UUID given that a hexdigest has 2^256 possible values and a UUID has 2^128.

Thank you in advance for your consideration and response.

Given that UUID takes a 32 hex character input string and hexdigest produces 64 characters, a simple approach would be to sub-index the resulting hash digest to achieve the appropriate string length:

import hashlib
import uuidhash = hashlib.sha256('foobar'.encode('utf-8'))uuid.UUID(hash.hexdigest()[::2])