Python md5 hashes comparison

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try to print both as:

print '-- %r' % hashesFile[h]
print '-> %r' % hashlib.md5(wordsFile[j]).hexdigest())

then you'll see whats really inside.

I suppose that this will work for you:

if (hashesFile[h].strip() == hashlib.md5(wordsFile[j]).hexdigest()):
    print ('ok')