Leandro Lameiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe I've got a distorted impression about the importance of this. As
> I'm not an experienced programmer, I'd probably trust more in your
> impressions than mine. :)
Good call. :)
> I mean, if we all agreed that it is a common thing, a patch for thi
Hi Fredrik (and other too). First of all, thanks for taking your time
to help me.
On 10/15/05, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leandro Lameiro wrote:
>
> > What's wrong in having a function like the one I said, that would
> > split files for you, feed md5.update and, when it is over, re
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Forcing every digest module to add code to cater for just one of many
> > use cases is most likely a waste of time.
> here's the hash API specification, btw:
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0247.html
I agree with you and Mike that a file checksu
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Forcing every digest module to add code to cater for just one of many
> use cases is most likely a waste of time.
here's the hash API specification, btw:
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0247.html
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Leandro Lameiro wrote:
> What's wrong in having a function like the one I said, that would
> split files for you, feed md5.update and, when it is over, return the
> digest?
Calculating the digest sum for a file on disk, without doing anything else
with that file, is a very small subset of everyth
Leandro Lameiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's wrong in having a function like the one I said, that would
> split files for you, feed md5.update and, when it is over, return the
> digest?
Nothing in particular; it's just a trivial thing to write. If you add
every usefull utility function to
Hi folks
Recently I have been discussing with a friend about python ease of
use, and it is really good at this. This friend needed to calculate
the MD5 hash of some files and was telling me about the MD5 module.
The way he told me and how it is described in the Python Docs, the
method to calculate
