Source Code Question

[icbd]

When I initialized the Pipefile, pipenv helped me create the directory of virtualenv, e.g. creator CPython3Posix(dest=/Users/icbd/.local/share/virtualenvs/未命名文件夹-AsmMYtXt

I was curious about how the name of this directory was generated, so I found the source code implementation.

pipenv/pipenv/project.py

Lines 539 to 546 in 32e18cd

	def get_name(name, location):
	name = self._sanitize(name)
	hash = hashlib.sha256(location.encode()).digest()[:6]
	encoded_hash = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(hash).decode()
	return name, encoded_hash[:8]
	clean_name, encoded_hash = get_name(name, self.pipfile_location)
	venv_name = f"{clean_name}-{encoded_hash}"

Does the processing of base64.urlsafe_b64encode have any special considerations? It seems that using hex() would be enough.

Thanks

[oz123]

What would be the advantage of hex over base64.urlsafe_b64encode?