kkwweett wrote:
A. an error in the software that computed the value for the web page,
B. a transcription error in putting the checksum on the web page,
C. accidental corruption of the file, or
D. a deliberate attempt to substitute a file with a similar MD5 sum.
It seems that the answer is probably B. But, according to the release
website manager, a mystery remains :
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-July/014281.html
Marcin Kowalczyk pointed out in a follow-up to the above that the
replacement of 'a5' with 'b1' could have been part of a global
search/replace that would have been correct everywhere else on the page.
Thus case C. Barry remembers doing some such.
Lesson. Take care with blind global replacements.
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