String comparison problem

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "Senthoorkumaran Punniamoorthy" <solution88pro at hotmail.com> (SP) wrote:

SP> I am printing these information.
SP> 	print string.lower(info_res[2])
SP> 	print string.lower(md5sum(f_md5))
SP> 	print len(string.lower(info_res[2]))
SP> 	print len(string.lower(md5sum(f_md5)))
SP> 	print str(string.lower(md5sum(f_md5)) == string.lower(info_res[2]))

SP> and the output are

SP> 01b7ebfc27437a90cc421c50df8f9ac5
SP> 01b7ebfc27437a90cc421c50df8f9ac5
SP> 32
SP> 32
SP> False

SP> I was wondering why the last print statement is returning false when two
SP> strings are identical?

They are not identical, because md5sum is reading from the file.
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