diff --git a/tools/merge-event-log-tags.py b/tools/merge-event-log-tags.py
index bddda90..64bad3f 100755
--- a/tools/merge-event-log-tags.py
+++ b/tools/merge-event-log-tags.py
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@
 
 import cStringIO
 import getopt
-import md5
+try:
+  import hashlib
+except ImportError:
+  import md5 as hashlib
 import struct
 import sys
 
@@ -141,7 +144,7 @@
 # versions of python.  Using md5 is overkill here but is the same from
 # platform to platform and speed shouldn't matter in practice.
 def hashname(str):
-  d = md5.md5(str).digest()[:4]
+  d = hashlib.md5(str).digest()[:4]
   return struct.unpack("!I", d)[0]
 
 # Assign a tag number to all the entries that say they want one