Question about encryption in Python

[Pablo Bleyer Kocik]

flounder wrote:

> Ok, what I want to do is use the crypt() function in a Perl program to
> encrypt a string then I want to beable to use a pyhton program to
> compare a entered password with the one encrypted in Perl and
> visa-versa.  So what I am saying is does Python have a module that is
> the same to Perl's so I can do this.  I know I could use MD5 or
> something in Perl then it would work but then I will have to install a
> new module in perl and I don't have access to do that on the server I
> am using. I am mainly just messing around and would just like to know
> if there is something I could use.
>
> Thanks alot
>
> --
> Flounder
>
> Just another C/C++, Perl, Pyhton, Tcl, Bash ... hacker
>

    Perl's crypt() and Python's crypt.crypt() call the system's crypt in
Unix.

    E.g.
    Perl:      print crypt("Hola","mu");    =>  muYo7cPyJD2p2
    Python: import crypt; crypt.crypt("Hola","mu") => 'muYo7cPyJD2p2'


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while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce(
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