How can I find a hash with leading zeros

Question

I came across a similar question that was asked but the answer didn't seem quite complete. Coding is completely foreign to me and I have spent some time trying to solve with no success. I am trying to increase the difficulty by getting 8 leading 0s and the corresponding nonce for the initial hash (no previous blocks) in python. Any direction here is appreciated

import hashlib

m = hashlib.sha256()
m.update(b'Your Name')
m.digest()
m.hexdigest()

'9cd26bee4d76694cb03cfee8c2355a83339157f2e9234fd1352c12597da72474'

Answer 1

You're missing multiple parts here. If that's your complete code, you don't seem to be adding a nonce to your preimage at all. You will need to generate a nonce, add it to the preimage, and test the corresponding digest against your acceptance criteria. To that end, you probably want to use a while loop that continues rolling random nonces and testing digests until one has the correct prefix. In the success case, it should output the relevant nonce.

You will also need to make sure that you use the same method of combining the nonce and your name as the exercise's test framework.