#!/usr/bin/env python
import hashlib
def string_to_md5(content):
"""Calculate the md5 hash of a string.
This 'string' can be the binary content of a file too."""
md5 = hashlib.md5()
md5.update(content)
return md5.hexdigest()
def file_to_md5(filename):
"""Calculate the md5 hash of a file. Memory-friendly solution, it reads the file piece by piece.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1131220/get-md5-hash-of-a-files-without-open-it-in-python"""
md5 = hashlib.md5()
with open(filename,'rb') as f:
for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(8192), ''):
md5.update(chunk)
return md5.hexdigest()
#############################################################################
if __name__ == "__main__":
text = 'humbleCoding' # :)
print string_to_md5(text)
#
filename = '/bin/bash'
print file_to_md5(filename)
