John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any reason you can't just read the whole file at once and update m?
Yes, you could say
print md5.new(file('foo.exe').read()).hexdigest()
but that means reading the whole file into memory at once. If the
file is very large, that could thrash or fail.
> Also, doesn't the parameter for update have to be a string? If you're
> reading the file in binary mode, would t still be a string?
Yes, t would still be a string. You can have NUL bytes and so forth
in Python strings:
len('ab\0cd') ==> 5
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