converting data to hex

[Paul Rubin]

Mark Harrison <mh at pixar.com> writes:
> >    value = tuple(map(ord,md5.new(myStr).digest()))
> 
> Most excellent...  It was only the ord that I originally
> thought I needed, but tuple/map is so slick that now I don't
> feel guilty about asking such a dumb question.

What are you really trying to do here?

Maybe what you want is more like

    import array
    value = array.array('B', md5.new(myStr).digest())