md5 wrongness?

[John Machin]

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'
>>>

>
> $ md5sum --version
> md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97
>
> $ echo snagglefrob | md5sum
> f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff  -
> $ echo 'snagglefrob' | md5sum
> f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff  -
> $ echo "snagglefrob" | md5sum
> f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff  -
>
> $ python
> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Aug 16 2007, 02:03:40)
> [GCC 4.1.3 20070812 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-15)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import md5
> >>> s = md5.new()
> >>> s.update('snagglefrob')
> >>> s.hexdigest()
>
> '9eb2459fcdd9f9b8a9fef7348bcac933'
>
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