I have used hashlib (which replaces md5 in Python 2.6/3.0) and it worked fine if I opened a file and put its content in hashlib.md5() function. The problem is with very big files that their sizes could exceed RAM size. How to get the MD5 hash of a file without loading the whole file to … Read more
Is there any simple way of generating (and checking) MD5 checksums of a list of files in Python? (I have a small program I’m working on, and I’d like to confirm the checksums of the files). 6 Answers 6
I have this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “python_md5_cracker.py”, line 27, in <module> m.update(line) TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing when I try to execute this code in Python 3.2.2: import hashlib, sys m = hashlib.md5() hash = “” hash_file = input(“What is the file name in which the hash resides? “) … Read more
