Re: Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

2006-09-28 Thread utabintarbo
Just for S&G's, I offer the following function which will return the md5sum of an arbitrarily large file. Found a while back while surfing def md5sum(fpath): """ function to return the md5sum (128 bit checksum) of the given file The sums are computed as described in RFC 1321. The

Re: Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

2006-09-28 Thread Jim
Gabriel and Dennis, than you for all your help. I ended up talking to a friend a work about it and here's what we cam up with. It's very similar to your suggestions so again, thanks. I just need to add a machine name so I can get a md5 log from multiple machines and put it in a database for vers

Re: Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

2006-09-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 27/9/2006 11:50, James Johnston wrote: fl = file(fileconfig,'r') fileData = fl.read() for f1 in glob.glob(fileData): filelist = f1 Here, filelist is overwritten each time with another file name; the last one survives. A few lines later you iterate thru filelist - in fact, you

Re: Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

2006-09-27 Thread Jim
Thanks Dennis, I'm feeling very stupid. You're right about the config file containing drive/path/filenames (eg. c:\python24\*.exe or whatever). I want to output a text file that contains records like c:\python24\pythonw.exe[tab]md5 value, ... next file record. The following snippet works but I d

Re: Extra Newby question - Trying to create md5 File Listing

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Brunning
On 9/27/06, James Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never written a Python program before and I'm trying to read a config > file with file path/names (eg. c:\\python24\\*.dll, ... *.exe) to create an > output file of filename + md5 values. I'm confused. I'm trying to learn > how to use