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 Try with

#python3
import hashlib
rawdata = "put your data here"
sha = hashlib.sha256(str(rawdata).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest() #For Sha256 hash
print(sha)
mdpass = hashlib.md5(str(sha).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest() #For MD5 hash
print(mdpass)