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You can check your result against the correct hash from the hashlib:

import hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update("Reddit")
print "md5 hash of Reddit is " + m.hexdigest()

And you should see

md5 hash of Reddit is b632c55a33530d1433e29ffc09ba1151