[issue2206] critical memory leak in hashlib.md5

Xie Bengui report at bugs.python.org
Fri Feb 29 03:42:30 CET 2008


New submission from Xie Bengui:

I write a pieces of code below to find my lost password:

import hashlib

for i in range(9999,99999999):
	m=hashlib.md5(str(i)).hexdigest()
	if m=="21e83200cfd4845fd5e07ee151d70caf":
		print "password is: ", i
		break


when I run it serval minutes, all memory use up.

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