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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def fingerprint(value):
 """Return a hash value that uniquely identifies the GCL value."""

  h = hashlib.sha256()
  _digest(value, h)
  return h.digest().encode('hex')