[Tutor] Different md5 values for files under Unix and Python?

[Blake Winton]

(Oops, I just sent this to Clay, whereas it probably should
 have gone to the whole list...)

> So I'm hashing some files, and I get different outputs for
> 
> os.popen("md5 filename") and hash.update("filename"); 
> digest=hash.digest()
> 
> which outputs
> 
> 543117d4fc8b2ac471a88a1baa1f2b59 book.txt
> 6a2b6248246f2ec5682688c63c477f1e book.txt
> 
> Puzzled.

Well, would it help if I showed you this:

-bash-2.05b$ md5 -r -s "book.txt"
543117d4fc8b2ac471a88a1baa1f2b59 "book.txt"

-bash-2.05b$ md5 -r "book.txt"
md5: book.txt: No such file or directory

-bash-2.05b$ python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 22 2003, 15:26:17)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import md5
>>> hash = md5.md5()
>>> hash.update( "book.txt" )
>>> hash.hexdigest()
'543117d4fc8b2ac471a88a1baa1f2b59'

Later,
Blake.