From 4e9dee60937f5124a3546eb7304f89974a25ae89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:11:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Use StringIO to feed md5 calculation to prevent unicode
 issues

Fixes #4014
---
 lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
index b5f1886d8d6..de6ab6b533e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/__init__.py
@@ -393,8 +393,9 @@ def merge_hash(a, b):
 def md5s(data):
     ''' Return MD5 hex digest of data. '''
 
+    buf = StringIO.StringIO(data)
     digest = _md5()
-    digest.update(data.encode('utf-8'))
+    digest.update(buf.read())
     return digest.hexdigest()
 
 def md5(filename):