"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 checksum function isn't that important. I use the hash modules all the time and can't think of a single time I've ever used one to hash an entire file. However, PEP 247 shows that the modules are supposed to have a common API. So if there was some actual reason to have a file-hashing operation, it would be done by implementing it once and having it call a hash module that's passed as a parameter, similar to the HMAC module, rather than implementing the file operation in every different hash module. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
