On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:27:46PM -0400, Joey Boggs wrote: > Here's an update, will this work best or any other suggestions? > > try: > import hashlib > m1 = hashlib.md5(path) > m2 = hashlib.sha256(path) > except: > import md5 > m1 = md5.new(path) > m2 = None > > f = open(path,"r") > while 1: > chunk = f.read(65536) > if not chunk: > break > m1.update(chunk) > md5checksum = m1.hexdigest() > > if m2: > m2.update(chunk) > shachecksum = m2.hexdigest() hexdigest() should only be called at end, outside the loop. As it stands you're computing a checksum for each chunk & resetting it Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools