.. module: md5

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MD5 secure hash
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This module implements the interface to MD5 secure hash algorithm.
It is used in the same way as all crypto hash modules: an instance of the MD5 class is
created, then feed this object with arbitrary strings/bytes using the update() method, and at any point you can ask it for the digest of the
concatenation of the strings fed to it so far.

    
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The MD5 class
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.. class:: MD5

       This class allows the generation of MD5 hashes. It is thread safe.
     
.. method:: update(data)

    Update the md5 object with the string *data*. Repeated calls are equivalent to a single call with the concatenation of all
    the arguments: m.update(a); m.update(b) is equivalent to m.update(a+b).
        
.. method:: digest()

    Return the digest of the strings passed to the update method so far. This is a 16-byte bytes object.
        
.. method:: hexdigest()

    Like digest except the digest is returned as a string of length 32, containing only hexadecimal digits.