Simple script to get both MD5 and SHA1 hash of any file.

getFileHash.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Simple script to get both MD5 and SHA1 hash of any file.

import sys
import hashlib

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.exit('Usage: %s filename' % sys.argv[0])

stream = sys.argv[1]

file = open(stream, "rb").read()

md5 = "MD5: " + hashlib.md5(file).hexdigest()
sha1 = "SHA1: " + hashlib.sha1(file).hexdigest()

print md5
print sha1