One problem with hexdigest is that it's longer and the column was
created as binary(16). We don't have a mechanism to run migrations on
this table, so we use UNHEX in SQL to have the equivalent as digest()
from hexdigest()
Co-authored-by: Jérome Perrin <jerome@nexedi.com>

Jérome: slightly adjusted manually to just use range where it does not
make a significant difference (for example in test)

also str representation of unicode character is different.

Co-authored-by: Carlos Ramos Carreño <carlos.ramos@nexedi.com>
Co-authored-by: Emmeline Vouriot <emmeline.vouriot@nexedi.com>
Co-authored-by: Kazuhiko SHIOZAKI <kazuhiko@nexedi.com>

this works with astroid 3.2.0 and pylint 3.2.0