How to get MD5 sum of a string using python?

Question

In the Flickr API docs, you need to find the MD5 sum of a string to generate the [api_sig] value.

How does one go about generating an MD5 sum from a str

Answer 1

For Python 2.x, use python's hashlib

import hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update("000005fab4534d05api_key9a0554259914a86fb9e7eb014e4e5d52permswrite")
print m.hexdigest()

Output: a02506b31c1cd46c2e0b6380fb94eb3d