# 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 = text + str(nonce) # calculate the SHA-256 hash of the input (text+nonce) hash = hashlib.sha256(input).hexdigest() # show the input and hash result print input, '=>', hash