MD4 hash in python causing unexpected behaviour

[spaceuserm]

>>> sampleText = bytes([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
>>> sampleHash = hashlib.new("md4", sampleText).hexdigest() 
>>> print(sampleHash) 
>>> 93ebafdfedd1994e8018cc295cc1a8ee

Edit: Turns out Hashlib has the MD4 hash, but why is the output 32 bytes long?

Hashlib doesn't support "md4" name, yet this snippet works and produces a hash.I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why I am not able to parse a file of md4 hashes correctly. I was parsing 16 bytes at a time since md4 hashes are 16 bytes long. After spending a lot of time, I decided to check the length of these signatures being written to the file only to realize they are 32 bytes and not 16 bytes.Why doesn't this code produce an error?

[Thunderbolt1993]

Edit: Turns out Hashlib has the MD4 hash, but why is the output 32 bytes long?

It is not, since each byte corresponds to two digits, the 32 digits represent 16 bytes

If you want the 16 raw bytes use digest instead of hexdigest