Here's one that has me stumped.
I am writing a forensic analysis tool that takes either a file or a directory
as input, then calculates a hash digest based on the contents of each file.
I have created an instance of the hashlib class:
m = hashlib.md5()
I then load in a file in binary mode:
f = open("c:\python25\python.exe", "rb")
According to the docs, the hashlib update function will update the hash object
with the string arg. So:
m.update(f.read())
m.hexdigest()
The md5 hash is not correct for the file.
However, this works:
f.seek(0)
hashlib.md5(f.read()).hexdigest()
Why the difference I wonder?
Thanks in advance.
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