Use subprocesses in simple way...

[Serge Orlov]

Dara Durum wrote:

[snip design of a multi-processor algorithm]

I thought md5 algorithm is pretty light, so you'll be I/O-bound, then
why bother with multi-processor algorithm?

> 2.)
> Do you know command line to just like FSUM that can compute file
> hashes (MD5/SHA1), and don't have any problems with unicode alt. file
> names ?

I believe you can wrap the broken program with a simple python wrapper.
Use win32api.GetShortPathName to convert non-ascii file names to DOS
filenames.