md5 consistent across platforms/Python versions?

[Erik Max Francis]

Gary Robinson wrote:

> I know that hash functions are often platform-dependent for efficiency
> reasons. From what I understand, this includes Python's hash(), which
> I have
> read is not guaranteed to return the same result across platforms or
> even
> across Python versions.

Yes.

> Can someone tell me whether an MD5 hash using Python's MD5 library IS
> guaranteed to return the same results for the same input string,
> across
> platforms and Python versions?

Yes.

MD5 hashes and Python's internal hash function are unrelated.

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