Python md5 password value

Question

I have this change password request form.In which the user enter their oldpasswords.

this oldpassword is the md5 format.

How to compare the md5 value from db

Answer 1

It's not md5, it's sha1 - "sha1$xxx.

You'd have to use sha1 functions instead. There is a documentation on this at http://docs.python.org/library/sha.html