md5 differences

[Wojtek Walczak]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:12:28 +0200, Python wrote:
> Arno at Computer:~% echo "test" > test.txt
>
> Arno at Computer:~% md5 test.txt
> MD5 (test.txt) = d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249

> >>> import md5
> >>> md5.new("/Volumes/data/Arno/test.txt").hexdigest()
> '90364ed45b452d43378629c20543a81d'


Works for me:

>>> import md5
>>> f = open('test.txt').read()
>>> md5.new(f).hexdigest()
'd8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249'
>>>

IOW, don't pass the path to the file to md5.new, but the contents
of this file.

The strange thing is that 
>>> md5.new("/Volumes/data/Arno/test.txt").hexdigest()
returns '8dd66a1592e2a8c3ab160822fb237f4d' on my machine.

-- 
Regards,
Wojtek Walczak,
http://tosh.pl/gminick/