Hello all, I will be dealing with an address list where I might have the following:
Name SSN John 111111111 John 111111111 Jane 222222222 Jill 333333333 What I need to do is parse the address list and then create a unique random unidentifiable value for the SSN field like so: Name SSNrandomvalue John 1a1b1c1d1 John 1a1b1c1d1 Jane 2a2b2c2d2 Jill 3a3b3c3d3 The unique random value does not have to follow this convention but it needs to be unique so that I can relate it back to the original SSN when needed. As opposed to using the random module I was thinking that it would be better to use either sha or md5. Just curious as to thoughts on the correct approach. Thank you in advance. G.
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