A script I use for comparing files by MD5 sum uses the following function, which you may find helps:
def getSum(self):
md5Sum = md5.new()
f = open(self.filename, 'rb')
for line in f:
md5Sum.update(line)
f.close()
return md5Sum.hexdigest()
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