Creating keyed sha1 hashes and comparing them in time constant

sha1_python.py

import hashlib
import hmac


def compare_digest(a, b):
    """Compare hashes in constant time."""
    return hmac.compare_digest(a, b)


def sha1_hash(message: str, key: str):
    """Creates a keyed hash for a message using the SHA1 algorithm."""
    return hmac.new(
        key.encode(), message.encode(), hashlib.sha1
    ).hexdigest()

For other hashing algorithms just change hashlib.sha1 to hashlib.ALGORITHM, other algorithms are sha256, sha512 and more. Check out python hashlib docs for more algorithms you can use.