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

You can use b character in front of a string literal:

import hashlib
print(hashlib.md5(b"Hello MD5").hexdigest())
print(hashlib.md5("Hello MD5".encode('utf-8')).hexdigest())

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Out:

e5dadf6524624f79c3127e247f04b548
e5dadf6524624f79c3127e247f04b548