How to convert Google Cloud Storage base64 md5sum to hexadecimal version?

Question

Google cloud storage represents the md5hash of objects using base64 encoded values.

How can I convert those values to the hexadecimal versions reported by md5sum?

Answer 1

You can use binascii.hexlify (or binascii.b2a_hex):

import base64
import binascii

print binascii.hexlify(base64.urlsafe_b64decode(md5_base64))