# example of iterating a nonce in a hashing algorithm's input import hashlib text = "I am Satoshi Nakamoto" # iterate nonce from 0 to 19 for nonce in xrange(20): # add the nonce to the end of the text input_data = text + str(nonce) # calculate the SHA-256 hash of the input (text+nonce) hash_data = hashlib.sha256(input_data).hexdigest() # show the input and hash result print input_data, '=>', hash_data