updates based on feedback

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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a6708cf..0f4fc33 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -89,15 +89,15 @@ Maxmimum Password Length
 
 The bcrypt algorithm only handles passwords up to 72 characters, any characters
 beyond that are ignored. To work around this, a common approach is to hash a
-password with a cryptographic hash (such as ``sha256``) and then hex or base64
-encoding it to prevent NULL byte problems before hashing the result with
+password with a cryptographic hash (such as ``sha256``) and then base64
+encode it to prevent NULL byte problems before hashing the result with
 ``bcrypt``:
 
 .. code:: pycon
 
     >>> password = b"an incredibly long password" * 10
     >>> hashed = bcrypt.hashpw(
-    ...     hashlib.sha256(password).hexdigest(),
+    ...     base64.b64encode(hashlib.sha256(password).digest()),
     ...     bcrypt.gensalt()
     ... )