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Consistently convert any string into a color hex
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synesthesia.py
def colorize(input):
# convert string to base36 and then scientific notation
a = '%E' % float(int(input, 36))
scinot = a.split('E')[0].rstrip('0').rstrip('.') + 'E' + a.split('E')[1]
# convert decimal portion of scientific notation back to hex and pad to 6 values
return "#" + "{0:x}".format(int(scinot[2:-5]) & 0xFFFFFF)[-6:].zfill(6)
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