md5 wrongness?

[Ron Johnson]

On 11/24/07 02:27, Ayaz Ahmed Khan wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 1:34 pm, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john... at cox.net> wrote:
>>> Why do Python's md5 and GNU md5sum produce differing results?
>> They don't differ. Try feeding them the same input:
>>
>>>>> import md5
>>>>> md5.new('snagglefrob').hexdigest()
>> '9eb2459fcdd9f9b8a9fef7348bcac933'
>>>>> md5.new('snagglefrob\n').hexdigest()
>> 'f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff'
> 
> Or, alternatively:
> 
> $ echo -n snagglefrob | md5sum
> 9eb2459fcdd9f9b8a9fef7348bcac933  -

Thanks to all.  I knew there had to be operator error, but I
couldn't figure out where...

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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