On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 12:20:34PM +0200, Axel Grune wrote: > Hi, is there any function which can convert a MD5 or SHA1 sum > (e.g. fd4cef7a4e607f1fcc920ad6329a6df2df99a4e8) to a long integer? Yep: >>> long('fd4cef7a4e607f1fcc920ad6329a6df2df99a4e8', 16) 1446090383108487004598230180906600288613882766568L -Andrew.