docs: def convert_catalog_id_to_object_id_string(catalog_id):
      """When doing hierarchies, need to convert a catalogId into an
      ObjectId, so convert to a string, then into a hex format.
  
      i.e. Bank Assessment hierarchy should become
           BANKASSESSME
           '42414e4b4153534553534d45'
       """
  
      if not isinstance(catalog_id, Id):
          raise TypeError('input needs to be an Id')
      seed_str = catalog_id.get_identifier() + catalog_id.get_authority() + '000000000000'
      try:
          seed_str = str.encode(seed_str[:12])
      except TypeError:
          # sometimes unicode is returned, in which case Python 2 can't handle it
          seed_str = seed_str[:12]
      seed_str = binascii.hexlify(seed_str)
      try:
          # python 3
          seed_str = str(seed_str, 'utf8')
      except TypeError:
          # python 2
          seed_str = str(seed_str)
      return seed_str