Take a look at: http://effbot.org/librarybook/md5.htm
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Rajesh Sathyamoorthy wrote: > > > How do you calculate the md5 checksum of a file? > > > > so far i got this, > > > > import md5 > > > > obj = md5.new() > > file = open( 'filename', 'rb') > > data = text.read() > > obj.update(data) > > checksum = md5.digest() > > > > Is this correct? Is there anything else i should do before comparing the > > checksum with the one provided for the file? > > the script has some obvious bugs, but nothing you won't discover simply > by running the program... (did you try that? what happened?) > > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
