Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > I try to compute SHA hashes for different files: > > > for root, dirs, files in os.walk(sys.argv[1]):
> for file in files: > path = os.path.join(root, file) > print path > f = open(path) print "sha is", repr(sha) ### self-help !!!!! > sha = sha.new(f.read()) print "sha is", repr(sha) ### self-help !!!!! > sha.update(f.read()) > print sha.hexdigest() > > > this generates a traceback when sha.new() is called for the second time: > > /home/florian/testdir/testfile > c95ad0ce54f903e1568facb2b120ca9210f6778f > /home/florian/testdir/testfile2 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "duplicatefinder.py", line 11, in ? > sha = sha.new(f.read()) > AttributeError: new > > What is wrong there? > "sha" no longer refers to the module of that name; it refers to the sha-object returned by the FIRST call of sha.new. That sha-object doesn't have a method called "new", hence the AttributeError exception. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
