Is it an MD5 digest in this Python script?
- by brilliant
Hello, I am trying to understand this simple hashlib code in Python that has been given to me the other day on "Stackoverflow":
import hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update("Nobody inspects")
m.update(" the spammish repetition here")
m.digest()
'\xbbd\x9c\x83\xdd\x1e\xa5\xc9\xd9\xde\xc9\xa1\x8d\xf0\xff\xe9'
m.digest_size
16
m.block_size
64
print m
I thought that "print m" would show me the MD5 digest of the phrase: "Nobody inspects the spammish repetition here", but as a result I got this line on my local host:
<md5 HASH object @ 01806220>
Strange, when I refreshed the page, I got another line:
<md5 HASH object @ 018062E0>
and every time when I refresh it, I get another value:
md5 HASH object @ 017F8AE0
md5 HASH object @ 01806220
md5 HASH object @ 01806360
md5 HASH object @ 01806400
md5 HASH object @ 01806220
Why is it so? I guess, what I have in each line flowing "@" is not really a digest. Then, what is it? And how can I display MD5 digest here in this code?
My python version is Python 2.5 and the framework I am currently using is webapp (I have downloaded it together with SDK from "Google App Engine")
