John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just a quick md5-related follow-up question: I was experimenting with > it and making md5 sums for strings, but how do you use the md5 module > to create a sum for an actual file, such as an .exe file?
m = md5.new() f = file('foo.exe', 'b') # open in binary mode while True: t = f.read(1024) if len(t) == 0: break # end of file m.update(t) print m.hexdigest() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list