Python: Create MD5 hash with hashlib
In Python you can calculate MD5 hashes with the already existing hashlib module. Just import "hashlib" and create a new object with md5().
import hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
With the update() function, you can now assign a message to the object. Attention: multiple update() calls will concatenate the together and don't replace it:
m.update("Message to be hashed")
The digest respectivly hash value is then calculated automatically. To get the hexadecimal representation of the hash, just call the hexdigest() function:
m.hexdigest()
In this example, the hash value "416b158b5c706ca67301c2dbecaaf235" is the result.
Shorter example for hash calculation
You can also use a shortened notation to calculate an MD5 hash in Python:
import hashlib
hashlib.md5("Message to be hashed").hexdigest()
