Why do Python's md5 and GNU md5sum produce differing results?
$ md5sum --version
md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97
$ echo snagglefrob | md5sum
f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff -
$ echo 'snagglefrob' | md5sum
f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff -
$ echo "snagglefrob" | md5sum
f842244d79af85b457811091319d85ff -
$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Aug 16 2007, 02:03:40)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070812 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-15)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import md5
>>> s = md5.new()
>>> s.update('snagglefrob')
>>> s.hexdigest()
'9eb2459fcdd9f9b8a9fef7348bcac933'
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