Python version of hashUnencodedChars

hashUnencodedChars.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import hashlib

def hash_unencoded_chars(s: str) -> hashlib.sha256:
    """ hash_unencoded_chars - emulates com.google.common.hash.Hashing.sha256().hashUnencodedChars(s)

    Google's java library guava comes with the hashUnencodedChars function
    which yields different results than most other language's hashing functions.
    This function should be compatible.
    """
    b =  s.encode('utf-16-le')
    return hashlib.sha256(b)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(hash_unencoded_chars('String').hexdigest())