Paul Rubin wrote:
> John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Any reason you can't just read the whole file at once and update m?
>
> Yes, you could say
>
> print md5.new(file('foo.exe').read()).hexdigest()
>
>
> but that means reading the whole file into memory at once. If the
> file is very large, that could thrash or fail.
>
>> Also, doesn't the parameter for update have to be a string? If you're
>> reading the file in binary mode, would t still be a string?
>
> Yes, t would still be a string. You can have NUL bytes and so forth
> in Python strings:
>
> len('ab\0cd') ==> 5
Thanks! I didn't expect it to be so easy. :)
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