[Tutor] trying to get md5sums of a list of files

[John Moylan]

Hi,

I have a list of the 1.5million filename with paths, on my NAS. 
I am going to compute md5sums for each file and sort them; check for duplicate files.
This is relatively easy in bash:
for i in `cat filelist` do; md5sum $i; done

However, as an educational exercise, I want to do this in Python.

So I coded up the following:

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import os, sys, md5

for path in open('filelist2'):
        myline = path.strip()
        f = open(myline, 'r')
        m = md5.new()
        for line in f.readlines():
                m.update(line)
        f.close()
        md5sum = m.digest()
        print m

However, the output does not make sense, where have I gone wrong?

Thanks in Advance,
John 


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