How to hash a string into 8 digits?

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00:20 Accepted answer (Score 244)
00:48 Answer 2 (Score 159)
02:31 Answer 3 (Score 11)
03:01 Answer 4 (Score 5)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1600...

Accepted answer links:
[hashlib]: http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.h...
[hash]: http://docs.python.org/library/functions...

Answer 4 links:
[shake.hexdigest(4)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashli...

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