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On 2011.07.06 02:07 PM, Phlip wrote:
> If I call m = md5() twice, I expect two objects.
You get two objects because you make the function run again. Of course,
the first one is garbage collected if it doesn't have another reference.

>>> m1 = hashlib.md5()
>>> m2 = hashlib.md5()
>>> m1 is m2
False

Are you assuming Python acts like another language or is there something
confusing in the docs or something else?