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in thread UrlLib and urllib2 python to perl

Digest::MD5 should be a suitable replacement here: 
% python -c'import hashlib;print hashlib.md5("blah").hexdigest()'
6f1ed002ab5595859014ebf0951522d9

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% perl -MDigest::MD5 -E'say Digest::MD5::md5_hex("blah")'
6f1ed002ab5595859014ebf0951522d9

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