hal.hashes package

Submodules

hal.hashes.md5 module

MD5 hash

hal.hashes.md5.file_to_md5(filename, block_size=8192)

Calculate the md5 hash of a file. Memory-friendly solution, it reads the file piece by piece. See stackoverflow.com/questions/1131220/

Parameters:

• filename – filename to convert
• block_size – size of block

Returns:

MD5 hash of file content

hal.hashes.md5.string_to_md5(content)

Calculate the md5 hash of a string. This ‘string’ can be the binary content of a file too

Parameters:content – string to convert Returns:MD5 hash of content