md5 wrongness?

[Erik Max Francis]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> $ 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'

echo inserts a newline, your Python snippet doesn't.

% echo -n "snagglefrob" | md5sum
9eb2459fcdd9f9b8a9fef7348bcac933  -

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