Computing an md5 hash of a data structure

json.dumps() can sort dictionaries by key. So you don’t need other dependencies:

import hashlib
import json

data = ['only', 'lists', [1,2,3], 'dictionaries', {'a':0,'b':1}, 'numbers', 47, 'strings']
data_md5 = hashlib.md5(json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True).encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

print(data_md5)

Prints:

87e83d90fc0d03f2c05631e2cd68ea02